Kiri Jorgensen is the Publisher and Senior Editor at Chicken Scratch Books. Her involvement in the world of children’s literature spans three decades and includes teaching, writing, editing, presenting, and leadership. Her passion is all books middle grade, and then teaching kids how to embrace those books too. Kiri loves bragging about her four amazing kids, and lives with her husband and a plethora of animals in rural Montana, where she cooks her meals on a wood-burning cookstove and is grateful every day for being right where she is.