Carol Saller

 Carol Fisher Saller lives in Chicago. Her middle-grade mystery Maddie’s Ghost (2023) was winner of the 2024 Midland Authors Award for Children’s Fiction, and book 1 of her new middle-grade time-travel trilogy, The Time-Jinx Twins (2025), was named a finalist for the 2026 award.

Other children’s books include Eddie’s War (2nd ed. 2023), The Bridge Dancers (2nd ed. 2023), George Washington Carver, Florence Kelley, Working Children, and Pug, Slug, and Doug the Thug. Honors include Kirkus Best Book of the Year, Bank Street Best, Horn Book Recommended Verse, NCSS/CBC Notables, the Carl Sandburg Award for Children’s Literature, and Chicago Public Library’s Best Teen Fiction.

 A career copyeditor at the University of Chicago Press, Carol continues to serve on the board of advisors to The Chicago Manual of Style. For many years she was editor of the CMOS Online Q&A and wrote for the manual’s Shop Talk blog. Previously, she was senior editor of children’s books at Front Street/Cricket Books.

As author of the “niche classic” The Subversive Copy Editor and its related blog, and contributing editor to The Chicago Manual of Style, Carol frequently guest lectured for the University of Chicago Graham School’s publishing program and has given keynotes, sessions, and workshops at national, regional, and local conferences. She served as faculty at Novelists Inc., Midwest Writers Workshop, and the Willamette Writers Conference, and was a recurring guest on Chicago’s PBS news program Chicago Tonight.

Website: CarolSaller.com and subversivecopyeditor.com

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