Steve Graham, recipient of ILA’s 2021 William S. Gray Citation of Merit, is a Regents Professor and the Warner Professor in the Division of Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University’s Teachers College. He is also a research professor at the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. For more than 30 years, Graham has studied how writing develops, how to teach it effectively, and how writing, reading, and learning connect. He also developed the Writer(s)-Within-Community model, which integrates social and cognitive views of writing. His research involves students and teachers across the globe, including Australia, China, Portugal, Chile, Belgium, Norway, and Turkey.