About the Author

Sheila Terman Cohen has written three Badger Biographies. Mai Ya's Long Journey was awarded first place in juvenile nonfiction by the Council of Wisconsin Writers and the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Gaylord Nelson: Champion for Our Earth received the same honor, given by the Indie Book Awards. Ms. Cohen studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and has written articles for newspapers in Madison, Wisconsin, where she and her husband live and raised their family.