Lisa Jenn Bigelow

Lisa Jenn Bigelow is an American writer of children's books and young adult fiction. Her middle-grade novel Hazel's Theory of Evolution won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Personal life
Bigelow was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She currently lives near Chicago. She can play piano, guitar, and harmonica. Bigelow graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Career
While she's not writing, Bigelow works as a youth librarian in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Publications

 * Starting from Here (September 2012)
 * Drum Roll, Please (June 2018)
 * Hazel’s Theory of Evolution (October 2019)
 * This Is Our Rainbow (October 2021)

Awards and honors
Drum Roll, Please is a Junior Library Guild selection.