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 April… April Chu began her career as an architect with a degree from the University of California, Berkeley, but decided to return to her true passion of illustrating and storytelling. She recalls spending most of her childhood drawing whimsical characters in her notebook after school every day, and …
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 Amy… Amy Dixon grew up as one of seven siblings, so the only peace and quiet she ever got was inside a book. Once she had her own kids, she rediscovered her love for picture books at the public library. It was the one place she knew …
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 Amber… Amber McRee Turner is the author of Sway, released by Disney-Hyperion in 2012 and Circa Now, released from Disney-Hyperion in 2014. For more info, visit her website. Quirky Questions What has been one of your most interesting jobs? The summer after my senior year in high school, …
Get to know Wendy… Wendy was once an airplane pilot and horse trainer, but now she happily spends her time making up stories and illustrating new worlds. She has been an artist for as long as she can remember. Before transitioning into picture books she showed successfully in galleries throughout …