Kerri Lukasavitz is the author of the book series for young horse lovers, "Mystery Horse at Oak Lane Stable" (Book 1 - which won a 2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Award) and "Gray Horse at Oak Lane Stable" (Book 2), with "Dark Horse at Oak Lane Stable" (Book 3) underway. She has a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Mount Mary University. She recently won the 2020 Lakefly Writers Contest for Flash Fiction, was a semifinalist in the 2020 Bethlehem Writers Short Story Award, is the recipient of a 2021 residency at Write On Door County, and was the 2019 Hal Prize winner for Nonfiction. She was born horse crazy, an animal lover, and a book devotee. She owned two ponies as a child, showed in 4H, worked as a show groom, rider, and riding teacher for two hunter/jumper stables, and recently volunteered at a therapy stable. She lives with her husband on her family’s Wisconsin farm where she grew up surrounded by her family of six, an assortment of beloved pets, and the natural beauty of the Kettle Moraine.    

2020 Lakefly Writers Flash Fiction winner, was a semifinalist in the 2020 Bethlehem Writers Short Story Award, a recipient of a 2021 Residency at Write on Door County, the 2019 Hal Prize winner in Nonfiction, 2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Award winner - Honorable Mention for New Author (Fiction) with "Mystery Horse at Oak Lane Stable" (Book 1), and was Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta in March, 2012 for academic excellence in English.