Audie Award-winning author Grant Overstake grew up in the Kansas wheat country he depicts in Maggie Vaults Over the Moon. An All-America decathlete at the University of Kansas, where he won the William Randolph Hearst Award, he began his journalism career at The Wichita Eagle at eighteen and went on to cover sports for The Miami Herald. Kirkus Reviews called Maggie Vaults Over the Moon "a fine YA novel about perseverance in sports and in life," and CITIUS Mag named it one of the best track-and-field novels of all time. The novel is endorsed by Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, leading voice for Title IX, and bestselling author of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports. The Second Edition (Grain Valley Publishing, 2021) features a foreword by Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi, chapter questions by Dr. Melissa I. White, and audiobook narration by Audie and Emmy Award-winning Tavia Gilbert. Overstake's second novel, The Real Education of TJ Crowley, won the Kansas Authors Club's top book honor, the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award, and its full-cast audio drama adaptation, co-written, produced, and directed by May Wuthrich, won the 2025 Audie Award for Best Young Adult Audiobook, IPPY Outstanding Audiobook of the Year, and an AudioFile Earphones Award.