Linda Heller has written and illustrated sixteen children’s books. Her books received the Parents Choice Award, the Bank Street Award, and the Sydney Taylor Award. The Castle on Hester Street is part of the third-grade curriculum nationwide.
She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, had an honor story in The Best American Short Stories, and received a Literal Latte Fiction Award and was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She’s had short stories published in Boulevard, the Northwest Review, New Letters, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarter After Eight, Ascent, Typishly, the Write Launch, the Midway Journal, and other publications.