Emilie BuchwaldEmilie Buchwald, PhD, was the founding copublisher and editor of Milkweed Chronicle and Milkweed Editions. She is the founding publisher, now copublisher, and editor of The Gryphon Press, children's picture books celebrating the human-animal bnd. Books she has edited have received more than two hundred awards and recognitions.
Buchwald's book of poems, The Moment's Only Moment, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award winner. She was editor of the Poetry Society of America's Wallace Stevens Centenary Celebration publication and the coeditor of three poetry anthologies.
She is the author of two children's novels, Floramel and Esteban (William Allen White Children's Book Master List) and Gildaen (Best Children's Book of the Year, Ages 9-12, Chicago Tribune Book Festival Award), and of two children's picture books under the name Daisy Bix: At the Dog Park with Sam and Lucy and Buddy Unchained (Henry Bergh Award, Best Children's Picture Book of the Year, and HSUS KIND Award, Best Children's Picture Book of the Year).
Buchwald is a recipient of the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the Kay Sexton Award, the A.P. Anderson Award, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota, and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Emilie and her husband, Henry, live in Minneapolis. Read More Read Less