to creatures of mythology, many things fuel author Zetta Elliott’s imagination. “Magic is power,” she observes, “and any opportunity to talk to kids about power, I’m there.” No surprise, then, that she’s crafted the successful middle school series Dragons) to poetry collections. Canadian by birth, she moved to Brooklyn after college, then, in 2020, to Chicago, where she bought a condo in Hyde Park, a neighborhood she loves to explore — and shop.
