Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story

Sidura Ludwig is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Her debut picture book Rising (Candlewick Press/Walker UK) won the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Her adult short story collection You Are Not What We Expected (House of Anansi Press) won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature and was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She is also the author of the middle-grade novel Swan: The Girl Who Grew (Nimbus Publishing). Sidura holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Master of Journalism from Carleton University. She lives in Thornhill, Ontario, with her family, where she makes challah every week.