Award-winning 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 ten books for children and young adults and one adult book.
She grew up in Oregon, the third of eleven children. Jill and her husband Bill are parents of four and grandparents of nine, with three great-grandsons. 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.