Susan Campbell Bartoletti lives with her husband and their two children in northeastern Pennsylvania. Before establishing her career as a writer, she taught eighthgrade English for eighteen years. Bartoletti then resigned to pursue her writing career.

She now teaches creative writing and literature at Binghamton University, where she is also a full-time graduate student in the creative writing program. When she is not writing, Bartoletti often speaks to librarians and writers about historical research, historical fiction and nonfiction for young adults, writing, and publishing.

Bartoletti is the author of two juvenile books: Silver at Night (1994) and Dancing with Dziadziu (1997). A Christmas Promise is scheduled to be published in 2001. Set during the Depression, it is the story of a girl and her out-of-work father who ride the Kids on Strike! 1999 (nonfiction) No Man's Land, 1999 (fiction)rails, looking for a good place to spend Christmas.

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