Atwood, Jude: - Jude Atwood grew up on a farm in small-town Illinois. After graduating from Bradley University and Chapman University, he became a community college professor in Orange County, California, where it hasn't snowed in over seventy years. Along with his boyfriend, he takes care of a dog named Kokoro and has occasional adventures. His first novel, Maybe There Are Witches, won the Kraken Prize for Middle-Grade Fiction and was a Society of Midland Authors honoree.