Michaela MacColl is the author of several books, including View from Pagoda Hill, which received honorable mention from the Grateful American Book Prize and was a NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year, and a finalist in the Connecticut Book Awards, 2022. Her other books include Promise the Night, which was selected for the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Book List, IRA's Notable Books for a Global Society, and the Bank Street College's Best Books list. Lady of the Lines is her picture book debut.