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Steve Graham is the Currey Ingram Professor of Literacy at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on identifying the factors that contribute to writing development and writing difficulties, developing and validating effective instructional procedures for teaching writing, and the use of technology to enhance writing performance. He is the current editor of Exceptional Children and the past editor of Contemporary Educational Psychology. He is the author of the Handbook of Writing Research, Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Writing Better: Teaching Writing Processes and Self-Regulation to Students with Learning Difficulties. and Best Practices in Writing Instruction. Steve also authored Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School, a meta-analysis of writing intervention research for grades 4 through 12 conducted for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellence in Education. Steve has received numerous awards including: Career Research Award from the International Council for Exceptional Children, Samual A. Kirk Award from the Division of Learning Disabilities, Distinguished Researcher Award from the special education interest group of the American Educational Research Association, Don Johnston Lectureship award for Career Contributions to Literacy, and Distinguished Alumni 100th Anniversary Valdosta State University.