Get to know Lisa… Lisa Lucca has been writing most of her life and writes passionately about life, love, family and living true to who you are. She is a #BlogHer17 Voice of the Year Honoree for her piece Two Roofs, One Home, and her essay Ashes of A Purple Heart won First Prize …
Get to know Robin… Robin Constantine is the author of The Promise of Amazing and The Secrets of Attraction (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins Publishers) A born-and-raised Jersey girl, she spends her days dreaming up stories where love conquers all, eventually, but not without a lot of peril, angst, and the occasional kissing scene. …
Meet Kristen… Kristen Kittscher is a former middle school English teacher and author of tween mystery The Wig in the Window (Harper Children’s, 2013) which garnered a starred review from School Library Journal and was named to ten Best of the Year lists. The 2014 James Thurber House Children’s Writer-in-Residence and a graduate of Brown …
Get to know Tracy… Tracy Clark grew up a “valley girl” in Southern California but now resides in her home state of Nevada with her daughter and son. She’s an unapologetic dog person who is currently owned by a cat. She is the recipient of the Society of Children’s Book …
Get to know Murielle… Murielle Cyr lives in Quebec, Canada, with her family, which includes a frisky yellow Labrador and a Tortoiseshell cat with an attitude. Teaching grade school for many years inspired her to write for children, although she also wrote adult fiction at the same time. She writes …
Get to know Thanhha… Thanhha Lai was born in Saigon, Vietnam, immigrated to Montgomery, Alabama after the war in 1975, and currently lives north of New York City. She wrote Inside Out & Back Again, published in 2011 and Listen, Slowly, published February 17, 2015. She also started a not-for-profit organization called Viet Kids …
Get to know Eileen… Eileen Rosenbloom achieved first-publication success when she won a contest for penning her own obituary. After publication of numerous articles and short stories, her first YA novel, Stuck Down, was accepted by Llewellyn Publications and released in 2005. She is currently working on a book for …
Get to know Loretta… Loretta is a former teacher and a graduate of Hamline University in the MFA Program in Writing for Children. She is the author of four young adult novels: THE SHROUDING WOMAN, a BBCB Choice and Rebecca Caudill Nominee; IN SEARCH OF MOCKINGBIRD, a Teen’s Top Ten …
Get to know Michael Garland… Michael Garland’s greatest success has been writing and illustrating children’s picture books. Garland’s Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook won the California and Delaware State Reading Awards. He has authored and illustrated thirty children’s picture books and illustrated more than forty books for other authors. Michael has …
Get to know Kristin… I am currently designing giant sculptures that will be in a lantern festival opening in Barcelona, Spain this October. I spend most of my time thinking of funny and colorful things to make people, especially kids, happy. I love to draw places I would like to …