AK Turner

AK Turner is The New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Vagabonding with Kids series, as well as This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask, and Hair of the Corn Dog. Her works have received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, IPPY Awards in Humor and Travel, Foreword Indies Awards, Independent Press Distinguished Favorite, and inclusion in Book Life’s Top 5 Indie Books of 2014.

She is a contributor to the anthologies Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana (Traveler’s Tales), Little White Dress (Mill Park Publishing), I Just Want to Be Alone and I Just Want to Be Perfect (Throat Punch Books) and a coauthor of Drinking with Dead Women Writers and Drinking with Dead Drunks. Her work has been featured online at Scary Mommy, In the Powder Room, The Huffington Post, Nickmom, Felicity Huffman’s What the Flicka? The Quivering Pen, Multicultural Kid Blogs, and Artocratic, among others, and in the print publications Cloudbank, Idaho Magazine, The Idaho Statesman, Treasure Valley Family Magazine, Boise City Revue, and Folio Literary.

She lives in Idaho with her husband and two children but travels frequently as a part-time digital nomad. Learn more at VagabondingWithKids.com.

Books in order of publication:

This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store – 2012

Drinking with Dead Women Writers – 2012

Mommy Had a Little Flask – 2013

Hair of the Corn Dog – 2014

Vagabonding with Kids: The uncensored, awkward, and raucous pursuit of family world travel – 2016

Vagabonding with Kids: Australia: You can’t ride a dingo-true tales from the land Down Under – 2016

Vagabonding with Kids: Alaska – 2017

Vagabonding with Kids: Brazil – 2017