Marilyn C. Hilton

Marilyn Hilton is the author of two novels and two nonfiction books. She has also published numerous articles, devotions, short stories, and poems in literary and consumer magazines, and has contributed to various compilations. Her work has won several awards including the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Honor Book Award, the Arnold Adoff Poetry for New Voices Honor Book award, the Sue Alexander Award, and the Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Award. She holds a MA in English/Creative Writing and a BA in Japanese, and studied Japanese at Middlebury College's intensive language program. For a year she studied ochado (tea ceremony) at Urasenke Konnichian in Kyoto, Japan, and continued her study in the United States. She now lives in Northern California, where she works as a technical editor, and where she and her husband are raising their multicultural family. Marilyn always enjoys telling “stories that stick” to readers of all ages. (Author photo by Michael Pettrey)