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tony
abbott
is the author of the fantasy series The
Secrets of Droon. His novel Firegirl was awarded
the 2006 Golden Kite Award for Fiction. 
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tracey
adams
founded Adams Literary in 2004, after nearly a decade with literary
agencies McIntosh & Otis and Writers House. Prior to becoming
an agent, she worked in the marketing and editorial departments
of Greenwillow Books and Margaret K. McElderry Books.
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bonnie
bader is the Editor-In-Chief of
Grosset and Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, imprints of Penguin
Young Readers Group. She acquires original fiction, from early
chapter books to middle grade series.
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peter
brown is a writer and illustrator. His first children’s
picture book, Flight of the Dodo, was followed by the
YA novel Barkbelly, which he illustrated. His latest
picture book is the best-selling Chowder, soon to be
followed by its sequel The Fabulous Bouncing Chowder.
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priscilla
burris is an illustrator. Her picture books
include Five Green and Speckled Frogs, I Love You
All Day Long, and Daddy All Day Long.
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cecil
castellucci
writes young adult fiction. Her books include Boy
Proof, The Queen of Cool and Beige.
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class
of 2k7is a group of first-time children’s
and YA authors with debut books coming out in 2007 who have
formed a marketing collective. Representatives appearing at
this conference include Jay Asher, Greg Neri, Greg Fishbone,
Thatcher Heldring, Carrie Jones, and Joni Sensel.
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allie
costa (who blogs
as Little Willow) writes primarily about teen literature at
Bildungsroman.
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tanita
s. davis (who blogs
as TadMack) is
a writer and co-founder of the YA literature blogs Finding
Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog and ReadingYA:
Readers' Rants.
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larry
day is an
illustrator. His picture book Not Afraid of Dogs was
the winner of the 2006 Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration.
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kathleen
duey has published over fifty books for
children and young adults. Her series include Hoofbeats,
The Unicorn's Secret, and her new trilogy, A Resurrection
of Magic.
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emma
dryden is Vice President
and Associate Publisher of Margaret K. McElderry Books and Vice
President and Associate Publisher for Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, both imprints of the Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing Division.
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judy
enderle has written numerous books for young children
with Stephanie Jacob Gordon. Smile, Principessa is
their most recent picture book.
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connie
c. epstein former Editor-in-Chief of Morrow Jr.
Books, is a contributing editor for the SCBWI Bulletin. She
will report on current news and submission policies of all the
major publishing houses.
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terri
farley is the author of Seven Tears into the Sea.
Her newest addition to the Phantom Stallion series
is titled Wild Horse Island.
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judy
goldschmidt began her career at Alloy Entertainment where
she developed the New York Times best selling series, The
A-List. She’s now a Senior Editor at Gosset &
Dunlap, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers, where
she develops and acquires middle grade and young adult fiction.
She is also the author of the middle grade Raisin Rodriguez
trilogy.
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marla
frazeeis the illustrator of many award-winning picture
books including The Seven Silly Eaters, Roller Coaster, Hush,
Little Baby, and Everywhere Babies, honored as a Horn Book Fanfare
book, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2001, and a Parenting
Magazine Reading Magic Award winner. Her picture book, Mrs.
Biddlebox, won SCBWI’s Golden Kite Award in 2002. Her
newest books are Clementine and Roller Coaster.
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russell
freedman is the author of more than fifty books for young
people, including the Newbery Medal-winning Lincoln: A Photobiography;
the Newbery Honor Book Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery;
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and
the Struggle for Equal Rights, reipient of both a Newbery
Honor and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, and
The Adventures of Marco Polo, the 2006 Golden Kite
Award Winner for Nonfiction.
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stephanie
jacob gordon is a freelance editor, writing instructor,
and together with Judith Enderle, the author of numerous books
for children including School Stinks and Six Sandy
Sheep.
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john
green is the author of Looking for Alaska, a
Young Adult novel for which he was given the Michael L. Printz
Award. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines,
was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book.
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rachel
griffiths, formerly with Arthur A. Levine Books, is an
Editor at Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. She
acquires mostly fiction, ranging from picture books to YA novels.
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bruce
hale is the author of the Chet Gecko Mysteries
series and the Moki the Gecko picture books. His
latest book is Key Lardo: A Chet Gecko Mystery.
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kelly
herold is
a regular contributor to the children’s and YA literature
blogs Big
A little a and The
Edge of the Forest where she is editor and webmaster.
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mary
hershey is the author of the young adult novel My
Big Sister is So Bossy She Says You Can’t Read This Book.
Her most recent book is The One Where The Kid Nearly Jumps
to His Death and Lands in California.
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anna
grossnickle hines
is the author and illustrator of many picture
books including Winter Lights: A Season in Poems and Quilts,
My Grandma is Coming to Town, and Which Hat is
That?
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lee
bennett hopkins has written numerous books of poetry
for children as well as several professional texts. Mr. Hopkins
received a Golden Kite Honor Book Award for his autobiographical
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life and his Marvelous
Math: A Book of Poems was the recipient of the Parents’
Choice Gold Award.
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ellen
hopkins is a poet and novelist. Her novels in verse,
Crank and Impulse, are currently on The New
York Times Bestsellers List. Burned was a 2006 National
Book Award Nominee.
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allyn
johnston is Editor in Chief at Harcourt Children’s
Books. She is interested in young picture books and middle grade
novels.
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jo s.
kittinger is the author of 14 books for children including middle grade non-fiction, easy readers and a picture book. Her most recent are easy-to-read biographies of Jane Goodall and George Washington Carver, published with Scholastic's Children's Press imprint.
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kirby
larsonis the author of the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie
Big Sky. Her other books include the picture book The
Magic Kerchief, as well as Second Grade Pig Pals
and Cody & Quinn Sitting in a Tree.
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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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laurent
linn, Associate Art Director for
Henry Holt Books, began his career as a puppet designer in Jim
Henson's Muppet Workshop. With the Muppets for 11 years, he
became the Creative Director for Sesame Street, winning an Emmy
Award. Laurent illustrates, reviews over one hundred books a
year as a member of the Children's Book Awards Committee at
Bank Street College, and collaborates with noted editors, authors,
and illustrators on picture books, middle-grade books, and teen
novels at Holt.
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krista
marino is
an Editor at Delacorte Press, in the Random House Books for
Young Readers division. She works solely on Young Adult and
Middle Grade fiction, always looking for new voices, innovative
concepts, and great stories for her list. Recent books she has
edited include King Dork by Frank Portman, Ball
Don’t Lie by Matt de la Peña, Golden
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and the Lucy Rose books by
Katy Kelly.
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carla
mcclaffertyis the author of The Head Bone’s
Connected to the Neck Bone and the multiple award-winning
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium.
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mac
mccool (aka Christian
Hill)
is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and professor of Illustration
and Sequential Art at California State University Fullerton.
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mark mcveigh
is a Senior Editor at Dutton Children's Books, an imprint
of Penguin Putnam International. After two post-graduate years
spent working in Paris, Mark studied at the NYU School of Education
and received a Master's of Early Childhood Education. After
teaching sixth grade in Brooklyn, New York, Mark began his publishing
career at Golden Books. In the years since, he has worked at
Scholastic, Random House and HarperCollins and has had the good
fortune to work with Maurice Sendak, Else Minarik, Gregory Maguire,
and Donald Sobol. His 2007 list includes Dead High Yearbook,
Dutton's first graphic novel, and Freak Show by James
St. James, hailed by Kirkus in a starred review as "A groundbreaking,
eye-opening, romantic, bittersweet story of one boy’s determination
to seek acceptance for who he is and right the wrongs of his
world, one dress at a time."
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walter
dean myers has been a versatile and prolific writer for
more than 30 years. He has received the Newbery Honor Award
for Somewhere in the Darkness and Scorpions
and the Coretta Scott King Award for Now Is Your Time,
Scorpions, Motown and Didi: A Love Story
and The Young Landlords. In 2006, Myers’ Jazz
won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text.
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kadir
nelson's many books as illustrator include Michael’s
Golden Rules, Henry’s Freedom Box, Please,
Puppy, Please, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
and Dancing in the Wings. His picture book, Moses:
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom was a Caldecott
Honor Book of 2007 and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award.
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elizabeth
parisi is an Executive Art Director at Scholastic Books.
She designs Young Adult novels, picture books, and everything
in between.
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linda
sue park's A
Single Shard was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2002. Her
other books include Archer’s Quest, Project
Mulberry, and When My Name Was Keoko. She is also
the author of several picture books.
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elizabeth
partridge’s book Restless Spirit: The Life
and Work of Dorothea Lange was given a Jane Adams Honor
Book Award and a Golden Kite Honor Award for Nonfiction.
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susan
patron is the author of Burgoo Stew, and the
middle-grade novel, Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe.
Her middle-grade novel, The Higher Power of Lucky,
won the 2007 Newbery Award.
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sara
pennypackeris the author of the Clementine,
for which she will be accepting the Sid Fleischman Award. She
has also written Stewart’s Cape and Stewart
Goes to School.
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rubin
pfeffer is Senior Vice President and Publisher at Simon
& Schuster Children’s Trade Publishing. He has published
and edited a distinguished list of critically acclaimed and
bestselling children's authors and illustrators that includes
Gary Paulsen, Janell Cannon, David Diaz, Wendell Minor, Don
and Audrey Wood, Cynthia Rylant, Alice Walker, Lynne Cherry,
and John Jakes.
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tamora
pierce is a prolific writer of fantasy novels for young
adults. Her series include The Circle of Magic Quartet, The
Protector of the Small Quartet, The Song of the Lioness Quartet,
and The Circle Opens Quartet. Her novel Trickster’s Choice
was honored by the ALA as a Best Book for Young Adults.
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gina
ruiz works in the entertainment industry. She blogs about
Chicano/Latino children’s literature for La
Bloga and
AmoxCalli.
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kate
schafer an agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates,
specializes in young adult fiction and middle grade novels.
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marilyn
scott-waters is the author and illustrator of The Toymaker:
Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself and The Toymakers. In
2005 she won the SCBWI Picturebook Portfolio Award.
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cynthia
leitich smith is
an author and avid blogger. Her blog "Cynsations"
is devoted to the world of children’s and young adult
literature.
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sonya
sones has written four young adult novels in verse,
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What
My Mother Doesn’t Know, Stop Pretending: What
Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy, and What My
Girlfriend Doesn't Know.
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julie
strauss-gabel began her career in publishing at Hyperion
Books for Children in the subsidiary rights department. From
there she went to Clarion Books as an assistant editor and rose
to associate editor. She is now a senior editor at Dutton Children’s
Books. She edits picture books and fiction for middle grade
and young adult readers
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dinah
stevenson is Vice President and Publisher at Clarion
Books. She has worked in children's books since 1971, holding
editorial positions at J. B. Lippincott Books for Young Readers;
Harper & Row; Pantheon/Knopf; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.
She works on picture books, fiction and non-fiction for all
ages.
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sarah
stevenson is co-founder of the YA literature blogs,
Finding Wonderland:
The Writing YA Weblog and ReadingYA:
Readers’ Rants.
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erin
vincent is the author of the young adult memoir, Grief
Girl: My True Story.
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jesse
joshua watson illustrations appear in numerous books
including These Things I Wish and the Hank Zipzer
series. In 2005, he was the Grand Prize Winner of the SCBWI’S
Juried Art Portfolio Display.
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lisa
wheeler has authored many picture books including Mammoths
on the Move, Sixteen Cows, and Castaway Cats.
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ellen
wittlinger's Hard Love was the 2000 Michael
L. Printz Honor Book and Sandpiper was named one of YALSA’s
Best Books for Young Adults. Her other young adult novels include
Lombardo’s Law and What’s in a Name,
which have won numerous other awards.
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lisa
yee’s debut novel, Millicent Min, Girl Genius,
has sold over 200,000 copies and garnered many accolades including
the 2003 Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her YA novel Stanford
Wong Flunks Big-Time was named an ALA Notable Book. Her
latest book is So Totally Emily Embers.
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roxyanne
youngis founder and Editorial Director of SmartWriters.com,
SmartWritersPro.com,
and AuthorTalk.net.
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