Kevin Maillard is the debut author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, which won the Sibert Medal and the American Indian Youth Literature Honor. He is a law professor at Syracuse University and contributor to the New York Times who lives with his family in Manhattan. When he was 13 years old, he won a fishing derby for catching 72 fish in two hours. Originally from Oklahoma, he is an enrolled citizen of the Seminole Nation.
