User:Ida Walker

Ida Walker is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and took graduate courses at Syracuse University. After years of balancing a career as an in-house publishing employee with freelance editing and writing, she became a full-time freelancer in 2006. She has written several books for the young-adult, middle-grade educational audience. Editing projects have included textbooks, trade books, fiction, and journals. Her special interests lie in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and she is currently working on a nonfiction book dealing with that period.