Becky Bravo’s first foray into the children’s fiction genre began in 1996 during a short-lived attempt at a Masteral degree in Creative Writing. One of the first classes she took was an undergraduate …
Judith Viorst is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature. This includes The Tenth …
A professional writer for over 20 years, Dandi Daley Mackall has written dozens of articles for popular magazines and published around 500 books for children and adults alike, with sales of over 4 mil…
Crockett Johnson was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of book…
In a career spanning three decades, Laurence Anholt has produced over 200 children's books, which are published in more than 30 languages. Titles like the self-illustrated Anholt's Artists series have…
Eugene Y. Evasco is a writer, editor, translator, and collector of children’s books. He is currently a Full Professor at the UP College of Arts and Letters. Some of his new books at Lampara are Ang Na…
Rene O. Villanueva (September 1954–December 2007) was a Filipino Dramatist and Children's Story Writer who made his mark in Philippine Literature in the late 1970s and well into the first decade of th…
Virgilio S. Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines.
Raymund “Rhandee” Magno Garlitos's first children’s book was called Ang Paglalakbay ni Pepito Piso, which was illustrated by an art staffer colleague in Malate Literary Folio. He wrote this to join a …
Yvette Fernandez is the editor-in-chief of Town & Country magazine. She lived for many years in New York but is happy to be home with her family and her Peter in Manila.
YVETTE NATALIE U. TAN is a Manila-based horror writer. Her works have been published in The Philippine Free Press, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Times, Uno magazine, Rogue magazine, Story …
Michael M. Coroza is a distinguished Filipino poet, essayist, translator, and academic known for his contributions to contemporary Philippine literature. He writes primarily in the Filipino language a…
Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story b…
Raissa's works are as eclectic as she is. A UP Art Studies graduate with an MA in Creative Writing, she's been a museum worker, a teacher, a crafts columnist, a textbook writer, an exhibit reviewer, a…
Augie has written more than 15 stories for children and has repeatedly won recognition from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He is one of the founding members of KUTING (Kuwentista n…
Luis P. Gatmaitan, MD is a medical doctor and an author of more than 40 children's books, some of which have been translated into Nihongo, Thai, and Bahasa Indonesia. He chaired the Philippine Board o…