Welcome to my website!

At this site, you can explore my books, learn about my school visits, and hear my thoughts on becoming a writer. You can also hear the real life stories that I transformed into my recent historical novels, Where the Great Hawk Flies (brand new!) and Orphan Journey Home, which appeared in newspapers across the country.

To learn more about how all my books are put together, take a trip through the rest of my site by clicking the pictures at the left. After your visit, feel free to leave a message in my Guest Book. Enjoy your journey!

News

Where the Great Hawk Flies has won the Julia Ward Howe/Boston Author’s Club Young Readers’ Award for 2006, and the Massachusetts Book Award for Children’s Literature, also for 2006.

Liza has joined the faculty of the new MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University.  The first residency takes place in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January of 2007.

Where the Great Hawk Flies will be available as a Scholastic paperback in January of 2007.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, December 2
11 AM
Celebrating Boston Athenaeum Writers Past and Present
Children's Literature Panel with Liza Ketchum, M.T. Anderson, Irene Smalls, and Rebecca Doughty, moderated by Jack Gantos.
Boston Athenaeum
10.5 Beacon St.
Boston, MA

Sunday, December 10
1 PM
Liza will speak and read at the Women's National Book Association/Boston Chapter's Holiday Tea at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.