Skip to content
Cynthia Leitich Smith
  • Books for Kids
  • Books for Young Adults
  • Cynsations
  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Kids’ Books
  • YA Books
  • Heartdrum Imprint
  • Cynsations
  • Writer Resources
  • Book Resources
  • Contact
Cynsations

Tag: Patricia Hermes

In Memory: Patricia Hermes

In Memory: Patricia Hermes

Posted on September 29, 2018January 4, 2019


By Gayleen Rabakukk

Author Patricia Hermes died July 11, while Cynsations was on hiatus. She was 82.

After writing articles for national parenting magazines and an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, a literary agent approached Hermes about writing for children.

“Hermes promptly wrote What If They Knew (Harcourt,

Continue Reading In Memory: Patricia Hermes »

About Cynsations


Cynthia Leitich Smith is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author for young readers. Her 2023 release is HARVEST HOUSE, an Indigenous YA ghost mystery. Her most recent previous books are ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book; SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA, which received six starred reviews; and HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award. She also is the author-curator of
Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint, and a member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA faculty.

Cynsations Staff: Publisher Cynthia Leitich Smith; Editor-in-Chief/Author’s Assistant Gayleen Rabakukk; Intern Suma Subramaniam; Intern AJ Eversole; Intern Bree Bender; Industry News Reporter Gail Vannelli; and the Cynsational Reporters: Rebecca Kirshenbaum; Helen Kampion; Elisabeth Norton; Veeda Bybee; Clara Hammett; Michael Leali; Linda Joy Singleton.

Learn more about Cynsations here.

Subscribe to Cynsations

Get Cynsations by Email

Thank you for subscribing.

Something went wrong.

we respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously

© 1998–2023 Cynthia Leitich Smith
Author Consultant CLS, LCC

Privacy Policy