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<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Ron Koertge</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Ronald "Ron" Koertge is an American author and poet. He wrote the short comic "Sokka's Poem", featured in Team Avatar Tales.
Avatar works
Selected other credits
- Making Love to Roget's Wife (1997)
- The Brimstone Journals (2001)
- Geography of the Forehead (2002)
- Stoner & Spaz (2002)
- Shakespeare Bats Cleanup (2006)
- Strays (2007)
- Indigo (2009)
- Coaltown Jesus (2013)
- Yellow Moving Van (2018)
Biographical information
Ron Koertge grew up in rural Olney, Illinois, and received a BA from the University of Illinois and an MA from the University of Arizona. For many years, he taught at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and then later at Pasadena City College in California, where he still lives with his wife.[1][2] He is the author of several acclaimed novels, most of them aimed at young adults. He is a two-time winner of the PEN Literary Award for Children's Literature[2]