Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker (1958-)

Tennessee Press Association and Tennessee School Boards Association awards for feature writing; first place for fiction, Columbia University Scholastic Press Association literary magazine competition; Parent magazine Book of the Year for Young Readers designation, and Aesop Accolade Book, American Folklore Society, both 2004, and Best Book citations from Bankd Street College of Education Children's Book Committee, Children's Book Center of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature of the University of Tennessee, all for Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey.