Andrea Alban (’04) is a poet and novelist, and author of eight inspirational parenting and children’s picture books. Her first novel, Anya’s War, which she brought to Squaw Valley in 2004, published in 2011 (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan) and was shortlisted for China’s Panda Award.and was a 2012 ALA honor book. The paperback edition published in March 2016. Her picture book, The Happiness Tree, was adapted for stage by the University of Utah and is traveling with the OUT ON A LIMB exhibit through children’s discovery museums in the US and Canada. Andrea speaks at schools and conferences, is the founder of the Writer’s Tribe™, a feedback forum for children’s writers, and mentors writers in the path to publishing and craft of fiction.