Mélina Mangal writes picture books, biographies, and short stories that focus on connections with nature and culture. She is the author of The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, …
Kashmira Sheth grew up in Bhavangar, Gujarat, for eight years, when she was three she joined Montessori school. She lived with her grandparents, because her parents lived in Mumbai three hundred miles…
Lesléa Newman (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, St…
Heidi didn’t want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn’t until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joine…
Rebecca E. Hirsch is a scientist-turned-writer and the author of more than 100 nonfiction books for children. Her books have won a Riverby Award, a Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, a Green Eart…
Guojing (Jing Guo) is an illustrator and concept artist. Previously she worked in the game and animation industry. She is now a professional illustrator. Her wordless picture book, ‘The Only Child’, a…
Alicia Meyers is an elementary teacher, interventionist, and coach in Washington, DC, diagnosed with Tourette syndrome. She writes stories that pull readers into a world they never knew existed, neuro…
Payal Doshi has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from The New School, New York. Having lived in India, the UK, and US, she noticed a lack of Indian protagonists in global children’s fiction and on…
Moni Ritchie Hadley, a half-Japanese, military brat bounced back and forth from the USA to Japan as a child. Daydreaming was a favorite pastime. She received a BA in Psychology at UCLA and later becam…
Lisa Johnston Hancock has felt a connection to the natural world for as long as she can remember. As a child, Lisa has fond memories of exploring her family’s farm by day and looking for Ursa Major by…
Diplômée en études anglaises, VANESSA BERGERON travaille désormais comme intervenante au communautaire, accordant toujours une place à sa fibre artistique en parallèle. Dans une ancienne vie, elle cha…
Barbara Kimmel is an award-winning children’s book author and playwright who creates playful, interactive board books and picture books designed to spark a love of reading from the earliest age.
As a mother of two active kids, Lucy Bozzi knows that parenting is a never-ending game of “Did someone just ask for a snack?” With a background in teaching, translation, and project management, she’s …
Children’s book writer and poet, Kelly Conroy, is 50% silly, fun-loving, never-grow-up big kid and 50% hard-working, focused, analytical actuary. She loves all things magical, whimsical, and numerical…
As a K-8 school librarian, I loved sharing picture books with kids of all ages. Those experiences inspired me to start writing ones of my own. The first—Elsa's Chessboard—is based on the life of my gr…
