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.^[1][2][3]

Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Genre	Children's books and young adult fiction

Personal life

Bigelow was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She currently lives near Chicago.^[4] She can play piano, guitar, and harmonica.^[5] Bigelow graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[6]

Career

While she's not writing, Bigelow works as a youth librarian in the Chicago metropolitan area.^[6]

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.^[7]

Awards and honors for Bigelow's writing

Year	Title	Award/Honor	Result	Ref.
2019	Drum Roll, Please	American Library Association Rainbow List	Selection	[8]
2020	Hazel’s Theory of Evolution	Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature	Winner	[1][2][3]
2020	Hazel’s Theory of Evolution	American Library Association Rainbow List	Selection	[9]
2020	Hazel’s Theory of Evolution	AudioFile Earphones Award Winner	Winner	[10]
2013	Starting from Here	American Library Association Rainbow List	Top 10	[11]