Tod Olson

Tod Olson is author of the forthcoming Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (April 2020), the narrative nonfiction series Lost and the historical fiction series How to Get Rich. He has traveled the country to report on the school shooting at Columbine, the murder of Matthew Shepard, drunk driving accidents, homeless kids, and other only slightly more uplifting topics. He has 30 years of experience as a writer, editor, and book developer for the education and school/library markets, and is a writer-at-large for Scholastic’s classroom magazines. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of the Fine Arts.

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