KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MT Anderson
M. T. Anderson has written stories for adults, picture books for children, adventure novels for young readers, and several books for older readers (both teens and adults). His satirical book Feed was a Finalist for the National Book Award and was the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. The first volume of his Octavian Nothing saga won the National Book Award and the Boston Globe / Horn Book Prize. Both the first and second volumes of that two-part series were Printz Honor Books. He has published stories for adults in literary journals like The Northwest Review, The Colorado Review, and Conjunctions.
Marion Dane Bauer
Marion Dane Bauer has been publishing since 1976 and is the author of more than seventy books. She has written novels; early readers, both fiction and nonfiction; picture books and novelty books. Her writing book, What's Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction, is used by writers of all ages, especially children's writers. She has won numerous awards, including an ALA Newbery Honor award in 1987 for On My Honor, and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She has recently retired from the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults where she was the first Faculty Chair.
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Ashley Bryan
My earliest childhood recollections are of my mother singing. She sang from one end of the day to the other. My father used to say, “Son, your mother must think she’s a bird.” For his part, my father loved birds. Although his earnings as a printer were modest and there were six children to support, he couldn’t resist buying birds. The living rooms of our various Bronx apartments were always lined with shelves, not for books, but for birds. At one time, I counted over one hundred birds in his collection. My mother would say, “If I want any attention around here, I’ll have to get a cage.” My father played a number of instruments: saxophone, guitar, banjo—and there was always a piano in the house. We grew up in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The government founded the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to create jobs for the unemployed. Artists and musicians were hired to teach in communities around the country. My parents sent us out to these free art and music classes. “Learn to entertain yourself,” they said. I learned this early because I cannot remember a time when I have not been drawing and painting. In elemenentary school I began to make books. My first books, made in kindergarten, were illustrated ABC and counting books. At the time the entire book production was in my hands. I was the author, illustrator, binder, and distributor. These one-of-a-kind “limited editions” drew rave reviews from family and friends and were given as gifts on all occasions. That feeling for the handmade book is at the heart of my bookmaking today. As a student at the Cooper Union Art School, I began a project illustrating African tales. I knew the profound influence of African art on Western art. I decided to use the abundant African art resources in New York City museums and libraries for this project. I began my career as an illustrator by working on a few small projects, but nothing substantial came from them. Then editor Jean Karl came to my studio in the Bronx, saw my varied book projects, and sent me a contract to begin work with Atheneum Publishers. When my African tale illustrations were to be used in a book, we knew that the documented forms lacked the storytelling spirit of the oral tradition. Jean Karl urged me to tell the stories in my own way and that is what I continue to do. Reading aloud from the poems of the African American poets has greatly influenced the prose of my stories. Their poems inspire the vocal play that I carry into my retelling of the African tales. Whenever I do programs, I always read first from the African American poets. This prepares the audience for my emphasis on the sound of the voice in the printed word as I read my retelling of the African tales. I always close my programs with the Black American spirituals. These are the religious songs of the enslaved African people in the United States. Varied Western influences merged with their profound African musical heritage to give us these songs. Children sing spirituals, but they generally do not know that these songs come from the musical genius of Black slaves. The spirituals end with the end of the Civil War. Since then thousands of these songs have been collected and documented. I began books of these songs in the 1970s because there were no introductory selections for young people to grow with. This example may inspire others, knowing that enslaved Blacks remained human and creative despite adversity and oppression. There is a poem by the Senegalese poet Leopold Sedar Senghor, in which he united childhood to Eden, present to past, life to death with the line un pont de doucer les relie (”a tender bridge connects them”). That lovely phrase stays with me as I retell and illustrate African stories. I hope that my work with the African tales will be, by the very nature of storytelling, like a “tender bridge” connecting past to present, reaching across distances of time and space.
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Gennifer Choldenko
Gennifer Choldenko's first novel, Notes from a Liar and Her Dog, was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a California Book Award winner. Her second novel, Al Capone Does My Shirts, was a Newbery Honor Book and a School Library Journal, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Al Capone Does My Shirts was short-listed for the Carnegie in the United Kingdom and has been on the New York Times, Booksense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Her most recent picture book, Louder, Lili (illustrated by SD Schindler), was published in 2007. If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, an ALA notable recording, just came out in paperback and her newest novel Al Capone Shines My Shoes—a sequel to the beloved Al Capone Does My Shirts—is a Kirkus, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Chicago Public Library Best of the Best for 2009. Her newest novel No Passengers Beyond This Point is due out in January 2011. Gennifer is hard at work on the last book in the Al Capone trilogy right now.
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Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman grew up in Santa Monica, California, hearing his father, Sid Fleischman, read his books aloud chapter by chapter, as they were written. Paul won the Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. After graduating from the University of New Mexico, Paul worked as a bookstore clerk, library shelver, and proofreader, eventually founding the grammar watchdog groups ColonWatch and The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to English. He thought about teaching history as a career, but decided to bring it into books instead. Over the years, he has dealt with the Puritans' Indian wars, Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic, the Civil War, and the naturalists Townsend and Nuttall. Music has been a constant inspiration for Paul’s books, from the duets in Joyful Noise to the symphonic, 50-voice Seek. He played piano as a child, joined recorder consorts in college, and later played in string quartets. Reading The Bad Seed as readers theater in my fifth grade class had a lifelong impact. While Paul has never acted in a play, but he likes to write books for the small stage--the couch, the classroom, the dining room table. Just as with chamber music, there's a camaraderie and synergy among readers that excites him. There are no posters or tickets for the vast majority of performances of my works, and that's just fine. The most notable public performance that he has attended was Walter Mayes' production of Seek, before a live audience and simultaneously broadcast over the radio in Santa Rosa, CA, three days after 9/11. A night to remember.. Paul has two sterling sons, Seth and Dana, and a book-devouring stepdaughter, Flannery, all grown. After sojourns in Vermont, Nebraska, New Mexico, France, and North Carolina, he is back in California, living in the village of Aromas with his wife, Patty.
Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman is the author of seventy novels for kids and young adults, most recently Pop, Zoobreak, and The Emperor's Code, the 8th installment in the multi-author series The 39 Clues. His writing career began at the age of twelve when his seventh grade English assignment became his first published novel. Now, more than three decades later, he is a full-time writer and speaker, with over eighteen million copies of his novels in print in twenty-three languages. A native of Ontario, Canada, he lives with his family in Long Island, New York.
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Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is the author of seventeen books for children. After nine years of manuscript rejection, many writing classes, and enthusiastic membership in SCBWI, her first published book, Ella Enchanted, won a Newbery honor in 1998 and was adapted into a motion picture in 2004. Her work has been published globally and has appeared several times on The New York Times children’s bestseller lists. Her only nonfiction book, Writing Magic, offers dozens of appealing writing exercises for kids young and not-so-young. She blogs about writing at www.gailcarsonlevine.blogspot.com. Gail grew up in New York City. Today, she and her husband David and their Airedale Baxter live in a 220-year-old farmhouse in New York's Hudson Valley.
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EB Lewis
Earl Bradley Lewis was born on December 16, 1956, in Philadelphia, PA. Inspired by two artist uncles, as early as the third grade, Lewis displayed artistic promise. Beginning in the sixth grade, he attended the Saturday morning Temple University School of Art League and studied with Clarence Wood. Lewis attended the Temple University Tyler School of Art. There, he discovered his medium of preference was watercolor. During his four years at Temple, Lewis majored in Graphic Design and Illustration and art education. After graduating, he taught art in public schools for twelve years. Presently, Lewis teaches at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. In 1992, E.B. began painting illustrations for the book, Fire On The Mountain and his career as an “Artistrator” was launched. To date E.B. Lewis has illustrated over 30 picture books and has received numerous awards including: 2003 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner for Talkin' About Bessie, 2009 Coretta Scott King Honor Award for The Bat Boy and His Violin, 2005 Caldecott Honor for Coming On Home Soon, and 2009 Coretta Scott King Honor Award for The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
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Loren Long
Loren Long is the #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could and Madonna’s Mr. Peabody’s Apples. Loren’s other New York Times best-selling books include: Toy Boat by Randall DeSeve which was awarded the 2007 Publisher’s Weekly Cuffie Award for Favorite Picture Book of the Year and the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award for Children's Picture Book, Angela and the Baby Jesus by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt, and the chapter book series Sluggers that he created with Phil Bildner. His first picture book, Angela Johnson’s I Dream of Trains, won the SCBWI’s Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration. His version of Walt Whitman’s When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor Book.Recently, Loren has both written and illustrated two picture books, Drummer Boy and Otis. Loren lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and two sons. You can visit him at www.lorenlong.com.
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Carolyn Mackler
Carolyn Mackler is the author of the popular teen novels, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book), Tangled, Guyaholic, Vegan Virgin Valentine, and Love and Other Four-Letter Words. Carolyn's novels have been published in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, and Indonesia. Carolyn has contributed to magazines including Seventeen, Glamour, CosmoGIRL!, Girls' Life, Storyworks, and American Girl. She has a short story in Thirteen, edited by James Howe, and in Sixteen, edited by Megan McCafferty. In 2008, Carolyn was a judge for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two young sons. She is currently at work on her sixth novel. Visit her online at www.carolynmackler.com.
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Rubin Pfeffer
Rubin Pfeffer launched his career as a designer for Macmillan Publishing Company in 1974. Following that, Rubin joined Harcourt Brace Jovanovich serving for more than twenty seven years (1974-2001) with responsibilities spanning from entry level designer to President of the Trade division. Working with world renowned writers and artists, he oversaw a 92% growth of revenues with operating profit quadrupling. During his tenure, the company achieved Newbery and Caldecott distinctions in Children’s Books, National book awards in Children’s and Adult Books, and three authors published by the house were honored as Nobel Laureates in Literature. Rubin also coordinated cross-divisional product-development campaigns with HBJ School, including the design and inclusion of prominent children’s authors and illustrators into the Treasury of Literature. This series raised the bar on design and content selection and became the # 1 selling reading textbook program of the 1990s. In 2001, Rubin joined Pearson, Inc., as SVP and Chief Creative Officer of the Pearson Education companies. Here he coordinated cross-company product development leveraging Pearson and Penguin/Dorling Kindersley content for print and online products. As well, he directed the design of major textbook programs for the K-12 companies (Scott Foresman and Prentice Hall) and college imprints. Most recently, Rubin served as SVP and Publisher for Simon & Schuster Children’s Books. Imprints reporting to Rubin included S&S Books for Young Readers, Atheneum, McElderry Books, Aladdin, and Paula Wiseman Book, all combining for sales of over $100 million. During his tenure, his imprints achieved prestigious industry awards including the Newbery Medal and Honor and the Caldecott Honor as well as a dramatic rise in the number of NY Times bestsellers. In 2008, he launched Beach Lane Books, a commercial children’s picture book imprint. Its first list included a Caldecott Honor and NY Times bestseller. Rubin joined the East West Literary Agency in December, 2009, as a partner and established the Boston base of the agency. He works with such luminary talent as David Diaz, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Jesse Watson, Jesse Joshua Watson, Jeff Mack, Timothy J. Bradley, and a host of other published and new talents.
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Jon Scieszka
Jon Scieszka has been writing children's books for 20 years. He is the author of picture books (The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Stinky Cheese Man, Robot Zot . . .), early readers (Jon Scieszka's Trucktown) and middle grade readers (Time Warp Trio series). He is currently producing a multi-platform book and digital series called SPACEHEADZ. Scieszka taught elementary school in NYC for 10 years, founded the literacy initiative GUYS READ, and was named the nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2008. His 2-year term as Ambassador ended January 2010, but he keeps the Ambassador title, and sash, for life.
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Rachel Vail
Rachel Vail has written over 30 books, for kids through teens. Her most recent include her trilogy for teens: Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant; and her novel for kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters.
FACULTY
Josh Adams
Josh Adams, together with his wife Tracey, runs Adams Literary, a boutique agency exclusively dedicated to representing children’s book authors and artists, including many bestselling and award-winning clients. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Business School, Josh spent years in publishing and media before bringing his editorial and business backgrounds together as a literary agent.
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Jill Alexander
Jill S. Alexander is an author and SCWBI success story. Her debut novel The Sweetheart of Prosper County was discovered through the national conference critique process and has received a starred review from School Library Journal as well as being awarded to the 2010 Texas Lonestar Reading List. Jill’s second novel Paradise and His Smokin’ Squeezebox is set for release in Spring 2011. Visit Jill at www.jillsalexander.com or follow her twang on twitter at http://twitter.com/jillsalexander.
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Bonnie Bader
Bonnie Bader is the Editor-in-Chief of Grosset and Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, two imprints of the Penguin Young Readers Group. She oversees a group of eight editors who actively acquire a wide range of books from series to readers to novelty to licensed properties. The editors are always looking to hire writers to work on both a “for hire” and a “royalty” basis. While licensed publishing is a staple of the group, a big focus is on middle-grade series. Some of the bestselling series published by Grosset include Camp Confidential, Hank Zipzer, and Katie Kazoo.
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Mac Barnett
Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac now lives near San Francisco. He is the author of the Edgar-nominated mystery series The Brixton Brothers, as well as several picture books: including Oh No! (illus. Dan Santat), Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem (illus. Adam Rex) , and Guess Again! (also Adam), which Time named the #2 picture book of 2009. With Scott Teplin and Eli Horowitz, he created the illustrated detective story The Clock without a Face, which sends readers on a real life treasure hunt for buried emeralds. Mac is on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students in Los Angeles, and he founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Newbery-Honor and Sibert award winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti has published poetry, short stories, picture books, novels, and nonfiction for young readers. Her work includes the forthcoming nonfiction title They Called Themselves the K.K.K. (Houghton 2010), the Newbery Honor nonfiction book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Scholastic 2005) and an historical novel, The Boy Who Dared (Scholastic 2008). Her work has received dozens of awards and honors, including the Washington Post/Washington Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work.
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Courtney Bongiolatti
Courtney Bongiolatti is an Associate Editor for Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers who works on titles for all ages. For the younger crowd, she has edited the New York Times bestselling The 7 Habits of Happy Kids plus the critically acclaimed What’s Under the Bed by Joe Fenton and Chris Paul’s Long Shot. She loves working on middle-grade books, especially boy and sports themed such as her upcoming Lucky by Wes Tooke and the Erec Rex series by Kaza Kingsley. For teens, she is excited for a non-fiction memoir by Kelle James about a young girl who runs away from an abusive home to find recluse in the bright lights of New York that is on Fall 2010. She is looking to acquire mostly boy middle-grade and literary and commercial teen fiction right now.
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Michael Bourret
Michael Bourret joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management as an intern while studying film and television production at New York University, and began at the agency full-time in 2000. After ten years as an agent in the New York office, Michael now works in Los Angeles in the West Coast office of DGLM. Michael’s authors include Sara Zarr, whose debut novel Story of a Girl (Little, Brown, 2007) was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; Lisa McMann, whose novels Wake and Fade are both New York Times bestsellers (Simon Pulse, 2008 and 2009); Bernadette Shustak, whose I Love You Through and Through (Scholastic, 2005) has sold over a million copies; Heather Brewer’s Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series; and Anne Rockwell, the critically-acclaimed author of more than one hundred picture books.
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Priscilla Burris
Priscilla Burris, has been a natural artist and a lover of children’s books from a very early age, having grown up right across the street from her neighborhood public library in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Her education experience includes degrees in Creative Design, Fashion Illustration and Early Childhood Education. With over twenty years of experience in children’s book publishing, Priscilla has illustrated over ninety books and materials for children, parents and teachers in both the trade and educational markets. Her most recent works include the upcoming 2010 release of Aloha for Carol Ann (Marimba Books) written by Margo Sorenson, The Tale of Jack Frost (Scholastic), written by Marcia Thornton Jones, and Tu Si Puedes, Gabriela! (HarperCollins), written by Dra. Isabel & Eric Vasallo. Five Green and Speckled Frogs (Scholastic), which she wrote and illustrated, and I Love You All Day Long (HarperCollins), and Daddy All Day Long, both written by Francesca Rusackas. Along with serving as the National Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, and as a member of their Board of Advisors, Priscilla presents seminars and workshops for illustrators and writers throughout the United States. She lives with her husband, three children, and Casper, their friendly dog, in sunny California.
Jennifer Cervantes
Jennifer Cervantes is the author of the Latino middle-grade novel, Tortilla Sun (Chronicle). She is currently an English faculty member at New Mexico State University where she teaches writing, and children's and young adult literature with a focus on multicultural titles.
Justin Chanda
Justin Chanda VP, Publisher S&S Books for Young Readers, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Margaret K. McElderry Books: Justin joined the editorial staff at Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2005 after an eight year stint at Joanna Cotler Books an Imprint of HarperCollins. A graduate of New York University, Justin was named publisher of the S&S Books for Young Readers imprint in 2007 and McElderry Books and Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2009. He is keenly interested in publishing books that are equal parts commercial and literary, books that make a contribution to the tradition, while truly entertaining kids. Aside from having the honor of working with the best editorial staff in the industry, he also still has the opportunity to edit some of its best talent including the likes of: Jon Scieszka, David Shannon, Loren Long, Kenneth Oppel, Patricia MacLachlan, Mac Barnett, Adam Rex, Michael Ian Black and Eric Wight. He is also serving his second term on the CBC’s steering committee as well as being an adjunct instructor for New York University’s graduate publishing program.
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Christopher Cheng
Christopher holds a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature and is a primary school teacher by profession. Now he is a full time children’s author writing fiction (including historical fiction), picture books and non-fiction titles. He has appeared on television and radio and regularly features in the print media print. Chris was Ambassador for the Australian Government’s National Literacy and Numeracy Week Initiative. In 2009 he was awarded the Lady Cutler Award for services to Children’s Literature. Chris is also passionate about the electronic media and all that it can hold for authors and illustrators. He is a popular speaker, panellist, host and presenter for both children and adults at festivals, schools and conferences in both Australia and abroad. He is a consultant and writer for the international Children’s and Adolescent literature journal First Opinions, Second Reactions (Purdue University, USA). In 2010 he is presenting at a number of conferences including Singapore's - Asian First Children's Connect conference. Born in Australia Chris is Co-Regional Advisor for Australia and New Zealand and is often heard to say that he has the BEST job in the world! www.chrischeng.com & www.chrischengauthor.blogspot.com
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Ginger Clark
Ginger Clark has been a literary agent with Curtis Brown LTD since 2005. She represents science fiction, fantasy, paranormal romance, literary horror, and young adult and middle grade fiction. In addition to representing her own clients, she also represents British rights for the agency’s children’s list. She attends the Bologna and Frankfurt Book Fairs every year. Previously, she worked at Writers House for six years as an assistant literary agent. Her first job in publishing was as an editorial assistant at Tor Books. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and a member of the Contracts Committee of the AAR. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
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Tina Nichols Coury
Tina Nichols Coury, author, award winning multi-media artist, blogger, vlogger, book trailer producer and all around Renaissance woman. Tina’s article on Book Promotion, “Blog Tours to Book Trailers” was published in Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market 2010. Tina’s first picture book, Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose, Growing up on Mount Rushmore (Dutton) will be release in the spring of 2012. Tina is represented by Mark McVeigh, founder of The McVEIGH Agency. Tina has over 500 posts and has interviewed more than 150 authors for her popular kidlit blog, Tales from the Rushmore Kid at www.tinanicholscouryblog.com, including Neil Gaiman, Sherman Alexie, Joan Bauer, John Green, Kathleen Duey just to name a few. You can view Tina’s vlogs on her You Tube channel www.youtube.com/user/Tinanicholscoury. Tina is the founder of Tina’s Trailers, a book trailer production house that creates trailers for authors, publishers and literary organizations tinanicholscoury.typepad.com/tinas_book_trailers/
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Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings, the creator of over thirty books for children, has also worked as a producer and writer for Nickelodeon's Gullah, Gullah Island. Currently, she teaches children's book courses at both Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Pat serves on the boards of SCBWI, the Authors Guild and the Eric Carle Museum. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Chuku Lee, producer of Cover to Cover, a children's book talk show that Pat co-hosts with author/illustrator Sheila Hamanaka for Brooklyn Cable television.
David Diaz
David Diaz: Illustrator, awarded the 1995 Caldecott Medal for illustrating Eve Bunting’s Smokey Nights, a story about a boy’s point of view of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Received Pura Belpre Honor Awards for Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand 2010, César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! By Carmen T. Bernier-Grand 2004, The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel 2002. Some recent books, Sharing the Seasons by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Before You Came by Patricia & Emily MacLaughin, Ocean’s Child by Christine Ford & Chris Holland and Me Frida, by Amy Novesky.
Denise Doyen
Denise Doyen is author of the picture book adventure Once Upon a Twice which debuted to starred reviews and was selected one of Kirkus Review’s “Best Children’s Books of 2009”. She studied creative writing at Stanford (B.A.), writing for the youth market at UCLA Ext. and got her Masters in film at The American Film Institute. Ms. Doyen directed children’s television for Disney including the beloved series “Welcome to Pooh Corner.”
Julia Durango
Julia Durango is the author of picture books, novels, and poetry for kids of all ages. Julia’s picture book titles include: Angels Watching Over Me; Cha-Cha Chimps; Go-Go Gorillas; Pest Fest; and Yum Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds. Her historical fiction novel, The Walls of Cartagena, was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book for 2009. Her recent adventure novel, Sea of the Dead, was awarded a Parents’ Choice silver medal and the 2010 SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction. Julia lives with her family in Ottawa, where she works as an elementary school librarian. You can read more about her at www.juliadurango.com.
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Chris Eboch
Chris Eboch’s Haunted series follows a brother and sister who travel with their parents’ ghost hunter TV show, and try to help the ghosts. Haunted includes The Ghost on the Stairs, The Riverboat Phantom and The Knight in the Shadows. Her other books include The Well of Sacrifice, a middle grade Mayan drama, and two inspirational biographies, Jesse Owens: Young Record Breaker and Milton Hershey: Young Chocolatier, written under the name M.M. Eboch
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Nic Eliopulos
Nic Eliopulos is an Editor with Scholastic, following a 5-year stint with Random House Children’s Books. He has edited many middle-grade and young-adult titles, including the Tapestry series, The Pricker Boy, Unfamiliar Magic, and the forthcoming Sons of Liberty graphic novel. He has also worked on chapter books, cutting his teeth as an assistant on the Magic Tree House series.
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Sue Ford
Sue Ford has sold over 130 magazine pieces for children and adults. Sue writes for children under her maiden name, Susan Uhlig. Her picture book Things Little Kids Need to Know was chosen as a 2000 Read, America! Collection Selection. She has been involved with the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for 18 years. She also is an instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature. Sue’s website www.susanuhlig.com has writing resources and recommendations of children’s books.
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Claudia Gabel
Claudia Gabel is a Senior Editor at Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, acquiring and developing middle grade and YA fiction in a variety of genres. Her best known titles are the New York Times bestselling series Summer Boys by Hailey Abbott, and the Scarlett Wakefield mystery novels by Lauren Henderson. She is also the author of the YA series In or Out (Scholastic/Point) and a forthcoming YA mash-up novel (Harper Teen). She lives in New York City.
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Eddie Gamarra
A former college professor, Eddie Gamarra is a literary manager/producer at The Gotham Group, a management/production company that represents screenwriters, directors, animators, authors, illustrators, publishers, and animation studios around the world that specializes in children’s & family entertainment. His main focus is in animation and literature ranging across picture books, novels, anthologies and graphic novels. His client roster includes numerous New York Times best-selling authors and illustrators as well as Oscar, Emmy, Caldecott, Newbery, and Geisel award winners. Eddie has helped his clients develop and sell projects for all platforms ranging from online shorts to live action feature films. In addition to his work at The Gotham Group, Eddie serves as a consultant for Teen Magazine and National Geographic's TV series Hollywood Science, and has lectured at Vassar, North Carolina School of the Arts, and University of Arkansas, Little Rock. He received his BA in Psychology from Vassar College, a Masters in Cinema Studies from NYU and a PhD in Psychoanalysis & Film from Emory University.
Christina Gonzalez
Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the author of The Red Umbrella (Knopf/ Random House), a compelling novel about a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to the U.S. as part of Operation Pedro Pan. Christina is an SCBWI success story as she met both her agent and editor at SCBWI conferences. You can find out more about her at www.christinagonzalez.com.
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Lisa Grubka
Lisa Grubka spent six years at the William Morris Agency before joining Foundry in 2008, and represents both fiction (literary, young adult, and women's) and non-fiction (pop culture, food, and narrative). Lisa has worked with a broad variety of authors, from debut novelists to Food Network stars. She takes a very hands-on approach in working with her authors, and is a thorough editor, ensuring the best possible proposal or manuscript. In addition to representing her authors, she also managed magazine/serial and audio rights for William Morris. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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Deborah Halverson
Deborah Halverson is the award-winning author of the teen novels Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth (Delacorte/Random House). She edited picture books and teen novels for Harcourt Books for ten years before leaving to write books full-time. Deborah lives with her husband and triplet sons in San Diego, California, where she also runs her writers’ advice website www.dear-editor.com and freelance edits fiction and non-fiction for both published authors and writers seeking their first book deals. For more about Deborah, check out her website www.deborahhalverson.com.
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Bruce Hale
Raised by wolves just outside Los Angeles, Bruce Hale began his career as a writer while living in Tokyo, and continued it when he moved to Hawaii in 1983. Before entering the world of children's books, he worked as a magazine editor, surveyor, corporate lackey, gardener, actor, and deejay. Bruce has written and illustrated over 20 books for kids. His Underwhere series includes Prince of Underwhere and Pirates of Underwhere. His Chet Gecko Mysteries series includes: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse, The Big Nap, The Malted Falcon, Hiss Me Deadly, and others. You could say Bruce has a thing for lizards. He also has created five Hawaii children's books, including Legend of the Laughing Gecko, Moki and the Magic Surfboard, and Moki the Gecko's Best Christmas Ever -- all starring Moki the Gecko. (By the way, Moki the Gecko and Chet are second cousins.) When not writing and illustrating, Bruce loves to perform. He has appeared on stage, on television, and in an independent movie called The Ride, where he plays a surfer's agent. Bruce is a popular speaker and storyteller for audiences of all ages. In 1998, he won a Fulbright Grant to teach storytelling and study folklore in Thailand. (No, he doesn't speak much Thai, but he loves Thai food.) He has taught writing workshops at colleges and universities, and spoken at national conferences of writing, publishing, and literacy organizations. On top of that, Bruce has visited elementary schools across the country, from Hawaii, to Kansas, to Pennsylvania. (You’d never guess he loves to travel.) These days, Bruce lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Janette, and his Heinz-57 mutt, Riley. When he's not at the computer or drawing board, you'll find him hiking the hills, bicycling, or riding the waves (when it's warm enough, that is). He also likes going to movies and playing jazz music.
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Deborah Heiligman
Deborah Heiligman is the author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, a National Book Award finalist, Printz Honor, LA Times Book Prize finalist, and the winner of the first YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. She has published 27 other books, including, Cool Dog, School Dog, From Caterpillar to Butterfly, High Hopes, Honeybees and ten books in the National Geographic Holidays Around the World series. Forthcoming: The Boy Who Loved Math, a picture book about Paul Erdos, Intentions, a YA novel (Knopf) and a new mystery-laden nonfiction book to be published by Henry Holt.
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Jennifer Hunt
Jennifer Hunt oversees the acquisition and development of all middle grade and young adult fiction for the Little, Brown Books for Young Readers list. She edits a wide range of books, including titles with Sherman Alexie, Sara Zarr, Cornelia Funke, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Pseudonymous Bosch, Cressida Cowell, Walter Mosley, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jewell Parker Rhodes, and is also the proud editor of SCBWI’s very own Aaron Hartzler.
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Amy Koss
Amy Goldman Koss keeps squeezing out those teen novels. Some kids like them a lot, some don’t. But there she sits, in her loud, messy house full of kids and pets, cracking herself up, making herself cry and shaking her head over her keyboard, murmuring, “So true! Couldn’t have put it better myself."
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Arthur Levine
Arthur A. Levine is a Vice President at Scholastic Inc. and the Editorial Director of Arthur A. Levine Books, a literary, hardcover imprint of Scholastic.
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Arianne Lewin
Arianne Lewin is a Senior Editor at Disney-Hyperion. She edits an eclectic list that emphasizes young adult novels and fantasy, but also includes picture books and chapter books. She works with authors Cinda Williams Chima; Whoopi Goldberg; Julie Anne Peters; EB Lewis; Scott Magoon; and Daniel Waters, among others. Arianne is currently looking for fresh new voices in all genres.
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William Low
William Low has been working as an award winning painter and illustrator professionally for over 23 years. He is currently the principal in Cobalt Illustration Studios, a full service illustration studio that produces illustrations for corporate use, children's books, advertisements, gallery paintings and fine art quality prints. Clients include LL Bean, Guideposts Magazine, Harcourt Brace and Company, Henry Holt & Company, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Philomel Books. Many of his original paintings are on permanent view at various Houston's restaurants around the country. Recently William wrote and authored Old Penn Station (2007) a children’s picture book on the history of one of New York City’s most infamous buildings. Other books William has authored are Chinatown (1997) and Machines Go to Work (2009). For over 20 years, William has been teaching painting and illustration. He is currently a professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City where he teaches a painting technique on the computer to undergraduates and graduate students. As an educator, he has taught traditional painting and illustration classes at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and has conducted lectures and seminars at the Ringling School of Art, Syracuse University, Maryland Institute College of Art, the Society of Illustrators and the Norman Rockwell Museum. He gives talks and demonstrations nationally his innovative painting technique and his career in Illustration. William Low lives and works on Long Island in New York. He is married and has 2 children. He is working on a new children’s book with author T.A. Barron and a new book of his own – City Machines Go to Work (in bookstores 2011).
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Stephanie Lurie
Stephanie Owens Lurie is Editorial Director of Disney-Hyperion, a position she has held since October 2008. In addition to acquiring and editing picture books, middle grade fiction, and young adult novels, Stephanie manages six acquiring editors. Disney-Hyperion’s annual list consists of approximately 100 books for all ages, from preschool through high school. The primary goal of Disney-Hyperion is to provide content that will entertain and inspire kids. The editors look for authors and illustrators with strong and unique creative vision that can be nurtured through close editorial attention and brought to market with expert sales and marketing focus. Before joining the Disney Book Group, Stephanie was President and Publisher of Dutton Children’s Books (1999-2008) and Vice President and Associate Publisher of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (1993-1999). She spent her formative years in children’s book publishing at Little, Brown and Company. Ever since reading Harriet the Spy when she was ten years old, Stephanie has wanted to help create books that will transport kids. She is especially proud of having edited Frindle by Andrew Clements. Over her career she has had the privilege of working with such authors as Rick Riordan, Neal Shusterman, and Judy Blume, and with such illustrators as Mo Willems, Patricia Polacco, and Eric Carle. Stephanie is the mother of two sons, both writers. When she isn’t reading submissions and editing manuscripts, she is walking her big white dog, watching movies with her husband, or doing volunteer activities at her synagogue.
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Steven Malk
Steven Malk is the third generation of his family to be involved in children’s books, as both his mother and grandmother owned children’s bookstores. He opened a West Coast office for Writers House in 1998, and represents a wide range of authors and illustrators, including Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Marla Frazee, Kadir Nelson, Sara Pennypacker, Jennifer Donnelly, Brett Helquist, Sonya Sones, Adam Rex, Deborah Wiles, and Cynthia Rylant, among others.
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Krista Marino
Krista Marino is a Senior Editor at Delacorte Press (Random House Children's Books) where she acquires and edits Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. Recent books she has edited include King Dork by Frank Portman as well as Portman’s newest novel Andromeda Klein. All four books— The Alchemyst, The Magician, The Sorceress, and The Necromancer—in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott, The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, and Jennifer Donnelly’s upcoming novel Revolution.
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Guadalupe Garcia McCall is the author of the novel in verse, A Mesguite in the Rose Garden, which is due for publication in the Fall of 2010 with Lee and Low Books. She has been teaching for 20 years and is currently employed as a Middle School English / Language Arts teacher with the Southwest Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. Some of her poetry has appeared in literary magazines across the nation, including Entre Nous, Borderlands, Concho River Review, The Dirty Goat, The Bilingual Review, Aoifee's Kiss, Adventures of the Average Woman, The Journal, and more recently, Red Wheelbarrow, Essence, Orbit, Falling Star, and The Prague Review.
Mac McCool
Mac McCool had his first comics strips published at sixteen. For ten years,he freelanced as an illustrator for Disney, the Smithsonian, and many dotcoms. He now shares his passion for children’s graphic novels in presentations and workshops across the country. He has published more than a dozen articles on graphic novels, including in the 2009 Children’s Writers’ and Illustrators’ Market. He teaches illustration and sequential art at California State University, Fullerton. www.macmccool.com
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Diane Muldrow
Diane Muldrow is an editorial director at Golden Books/Random House, and the editor of the famous Little Golden Books. She has worked in publishing for over twenty years, editing mass market, licensed, and trade picture books for young children. Diane is also a prolific author of books for kids of all ages, including the middle-grade series Dish (Grosset & Dunlap). Random House recently published her picture book We Planted A Tree, illustrated by award-winner Bob Staake, along with several board/novelty books including Who’s Your Daddy?, illustrated by Rick Peterson. Diane edited Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way, by noted literary historian Leonard Marcus (Random House, 2007). She and Marcus co-curated an exhibition of original Golden Books illustrations, which is currently touring the country. In October 2007, Diane was a keynote speaker at an anniversary celebration of Little Golden Books in Amsterdam. Diane was a dancer, actress, and spoken-word performer in New York’s avant-garde scene in the late 1980s/early 1990s. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Fine Arts (Dance), and in Magazine Journalism, from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Diane grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Brenda Murray
Helping and encouraging children to learn has shaped Brenda Murray's career. Before publishing, she was a 6th-grade math and science teacher, then went on to receive an M.S. in Instructional Technology. She has been at Scholastic since 2002 and has worked on more than 200 nonfiction titles. Brenda is currently managing a list of approximately 45 children's books per year, grades range from PreK-8, various formats. Topics include: food and cooking, sports, biographies, language and vocabulary, science and technology, social issues, history, and popular culture. She is always looking for fun nonfiction proposals.
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Alexis O'Neill
Alexis O'Neill writes the column, "The Truth About School Visits" for the SCBWI Bulletin and sleeps with a GPS under her pillow as she is constantly on the road visiting schools and libraries. She earned her teaching chops as an elementary school teacher and museum educator, and holds a Ph.D. in teacher education. With her practical, no nonsense advice, Alexis helps authors & illustrators navigate the world of crowded multipurpose rooms and aromatic school lunches while they splash their book magic on eager kids. She is the author of The Recess Queen (Scholastic), The Worst Best Friend (Scholastic), Loud Emily (Simon & Schuster) Estela's Swap (Lee & Low) and many pieces for children's magazines including Cricket, Spider, Cobblestone, Faces, Calliope, and Odyssey.
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Coleen Paratore
Coleen Murtagh Paratore, “the queen of tween,” is best known for her 1/2million-selling debut novel, The Wedding Planner's Daughter, now a popular international series, soon to be a movie(!!), and Sunny Holiday, named one of New York Public Library’s 100 Best Books of 2009. In her first 6 years as an author, Coleen has written 14 books—(3 picture books and 11 mg novels—three of which blossomed into a series) all published by major houses, and when she’s not catching fireflies and writing, she’s out in schools inspiring the next generation of SCBWI members. *Spark*Spark*Spark. Catch Coleen on-line at www.coleenparatore.com.
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Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is the author of several novels and picture books, including A Single Shard, the 2002 Newbery Medal winner. A member of the SCBWI Board of Advisors, she writes fiction and poetry for both adults and young readers. Her most recent books are Tap Dancing on the Roof, a collection of poetry, and Keeping Score, a baseball story set during the time of the Korean War. Linda Sue knows very well that she will never be able to read every good book ever written, but she keeps trying anyway.
John Parra
John Parra grew up in Santa Barbara, California to a wonderful family enriched in Hispanic roots.. Awarded a full scholarship, John attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors. John is an award winning illustrator and designer, working with such clients as United Airlines, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Jeep/Daimler Chrysler, Virgin Records Inc., PBS, Random House/Tricycle Press, Luna Rising Publishing, Lee & Low Books, Sleeping Bear Press, L.A. Weekly, and Mpls/St.Paul Magazine. His artwork has been showcased and displayed in numerous gallery shows in New York, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and throughout the United States. Many of his fine art paintings now reside with private collectors.He has received honors and accolades from the New York’s Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine, The Art Directors Club of New York, The American Library Association, and Latino Literacy Now. John’s creativity is a reflection of his passions. “I like to draw inspiration from the diverse cultural images in our lives and our assimilation of these images into our own oneness. Mexican mural artists, folk paintings, and pop art designs are all influences I enjoy channeling for inspiration. Within issues of family, spirituality, and philosophical concepts that lie at the heart of my ideas I am able to express my thoughts and my soul.”Currently John and his wife Maria live in Queens, NY. He continues working passionately creating art through his imagination and creativity. His most recent illustrated children’s book entitled Gracias/Thanks, was honored with the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the Pura Belpré honors Award for illustration.
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Elizabeth Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge is the award-winning author more than a dozen books, from picture books to young adult nonfiction. Her books include the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking 2005), This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (2002 Viking), and Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Viking 1999). Elizabeth is a National Book Award finalist, and has received the ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the SCBWI Golden Kite. Her latest book, Marching for Freedom (Viking) won the SLJ Battle of the Books and the LA Times Book Prize for Young Readers.
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Greg Pincus
Greg Pincus is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, volunteer elementary school librarian, and social media consultant. He's also a blogger, writing about children's literature and poetry at GottaBook (http://gottabook.blogspot.com) and the social web at The Happy Accident (http://www.thehappyaccident.net). Through the wonders of social media, he's sold poetry, helped himself land a two book deal with Arthur A. Levine Books, ended up in the New York Times, the Washington Post, School Library Journal (multiple times), and many other interesting places… and also made friends and gotten free cookies on more than one occasion!
Alice Pope
Alice Pope is editor of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market, and Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, serves as Managing Editor of the Writer’s Digest’s Market Books department, and has been with WD for nearly 18 years. She teaches webinars for Writers Online Workshops, maintains Alice’s CWIM Blog at http://cwim.blogspot.com and is captain of SCBWI TEAM BLOG which provides exhaustive coverage of the two Annual SCBWI Conferences in LA and NYC at http://scbwiconference.blogspot.com/. Find her on Twitter: @alicepope.
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Jennifer Rees
Jennifer Rees got her start in children’s books as a children’s bookseller at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati. Since then, she’s found great joy in working as an editor at Scholastic Press, where she acquires and edits fiction and nonfiction picture books, middle grade fiction, and YA novels. A sampling of the projects she’s edited include Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again by Craig Hatkoff, Chicken and Cat Clean Up by Sara Varon, Sunny Holiday and Forget Me Not by Coleen Murtagh Paratore, 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick, Purge by Sarah Darer Littman, and The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
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Michael Reisman
Michael Reisman has been working for over 11 years as a story analyst for various movie and TV companies including Nickelodeon Movies/ TV, Cartoon Network, and Dreamworks Animation. (Maybe he's read something by you.) He is the author of middle grade novels Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper and Simon Bloom: The Octopus Effect (Dutton/ Walden Media). Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper has been optioned for feature adaptation.
Lauren Rille
Lauren Rille is a senior designer at Simon & Schuster, where she works with the Beach Lane, Atheneum, and McElderry imprints. Before joining S&S, Lauren was a designer at Sterling and Harcourt Children’s Books. Some books she’s designed include Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth by Sarah Weeks, illustrated by Robert Neubecker; The Night Goblin by Mem Fox, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; Pepi Sings a New Song by Laura Ljungkvist, and the New York Times bestselling Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow. Lauren loves the collaborative process of working with editors and illustrators, and she’s always on the lookout for fresh new talent.
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Francesco Sedita
Francesco Sedita is an accomplished writer whose work includes an ongoing children’s book series; his literary career also includes his role as Publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, two children’s imprints at the Penguin Young Readers Group.. While working on his undergraduate degree, Francesco spent a year as a “Saturday Night Live” writing fellow. He developed and oversaw the marketing and creative campaign for the final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the launch of which broke every sales record in the publishing industry. He also recently edited the first young adult novel by bestselling author Ann Hood, whom he had the privilege of calling his writing mentor while studying at NYU. Currently, Francesco has just finished the third book in his celebrated Miss Popularity series, as well as collaborating on the first book of Spaceheadz, a new series, with Jon Scieszka. A native New Yorker, Francesco lives in Brooklyn.
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Melissa Stewart
Melissa Stewart has written more than 100 nonfiction books for young readers. Her picture book Under the Snow is a NSTA-CBC Selector’s Choice title and a Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended title. She is a member of the SCBWI Board.
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Tanya Stone
Tanya Lee Stone’s books include Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote (Holt 2008), Sandy’s Circus: A Story about Alexander Calder (Viking 2008), and Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Candlewick 2009). Her work has received many honors and awards, including a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist, Bank Street’s Flora Steiglitz Straus Award, and the Robert F. Sibert Medal. Coming in October is The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A History of the Doll and Her Impact on Culture (Viking 2010).
Tony Valenzuela
Executive director of Lambda Literary, Tony Valenzuela is a longtime community activist and writer whose work has focused on LGBTQ civil rights, sexual liberation and gay men’s health. A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program of the California Institute of the Arts, Tony Valenzuela his previous positions include Manager of Research and Administration at GLASS (Gay & Lesbian Adolescent Social Services) in Los Angeles, the largest and oldest LGBTQ child welfare organization in the country serving abused and neglected LGBTQ youth; Administrative Director of the Lesbian and Gay Men’s Community Center in San Diego where he spearheaded campaigns ranging from anti-gay hate crimes awareness to the needs of LGBTQ youth in schools; and Director of VOICES ’96 (Voters Organized in Coalition for the Elections). He is credited with having ruptured the conventional wisdom in HIV/AIDS prevention among gay men by launching an international debate regarding responsible sex without condoms and continues to this day to be a leading voice in the gay men’s health movement. Out Magazine has listed him among the “Out 100.” He wrote, produced and performed his acclaimed one-man show, “The (Bad) Boy Next Door,” a second generation AIDS narrative which toured in a dozen cities in the U.S. He has continued to publish essays, fiction and journalism and is currently working on a memoir. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Rob Ferrante, and their dog, Boo.
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Ken Wright
Ken Wright was an editor and publisher for 20 years, most recently at Scholastic, where he was an editorial director and associate publisher. Ken joined Writers House in 2007 as an agent, specializing in children’s literature (nonfiction and fiction particularly, and the occasional picture book), as well as in adult nonfiction. Ken’s children’s clients list includes recipients of some of the most prestigious awards in children’s publishing, including the Caldecott, Newberry, And Printz Awards, as well as the National Book Award and the Sibert Award.
Cecilia Yung
Cecilia Yung is Art Director and Vice President at Penguin Young Readers Group, where she oversees illustration and design for hardcover titles for two imprints: G. P. Putnam's Sons and Philomel Books.
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