Joni Sensel
JONI SENSEL is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction titles for adults, five novels for young readers from Macmillan imprints, and two picture books. Her fiction titles include a Junior Library Guild selection, a Center for Children’s Books “Best Book,” a Henry Bergh Honor title, and a finalist for several other awards. Her nonfiction titles have given her a dangerous level of knowledge about industries as diverse as public power, wood products, kidney disease, Lean manufacturing, recycling, and healthcare. She balances this education by avoiding any knowledge whatsoever about professional wrestling, hit TV shows, or K-pop. Sensel holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2015). She previously served for four years as a co-regional advisor for one of the nation’s largest chapters of the Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), with more than 700 members. More recently she served as this chapter’s Creativity Liaison, among other volunteer roles.
