Award-winning children’s author and public speaker
Making a difference for the next generation
Jill Ammon Vanderwood is the 2008 Writer of the Year for the League of Utah Writers. She is the author of thirteen books for children and young adults and one adult book—Shaking Behind the Microphone: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking.
She grew up in Oregon, the third of eleven children. Jill and her husband Bill are parents of four and grandparents of nine, with four great-grandchildren. They have recently moved to Southern Idaho.
Jill loves going on adventures with her grandchildren. She loves to travel and tries to write something every day.