On this episode of TWIWT, Michelle and Alley sit down with award-winning author, Elana K. Arnold, to discuss storytelling, creative vulnerability, un-schooling your kids, not talking to your parents, and more. Elana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children’s books, including the Printz Honor winner Damsel, the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of, and Global Read Aloud selection A Boy Called Bat and its sequels. Elana teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program and also offers two awesome writing courses: a generative creative writing course called Vision Season; and a masterclass in novel revision called Revision Season.  Learn more at elanakarnold.com.