Pocono & the Three Bears 2026: Faculty Bios

Maryn Arreguín has spent the last two decades art directing and designing children’s books. She began her publishing journey working with popular licenses like Disney, Sesame Street, and Nickelodeon designing sound books, lift-a-flap books, and pop-up books as an Art Director for Phoenix International Publications. As a Senior Art Director at Sourcebooks Kids, she works closely with illustrators and editors to turn manuscripts into award-winning children's books. Maryn works on a diverse list of titles ranging from board books, picture books, graphic novels, and young readers. She specializes in developing series branding, cover design, internal layout, and paper engineering. She has illustrated ten of Katie Clemons’ guided journals and has helped to develop the New York Times bestselling Always in My Heart picture book series. She is the author/illustrator of One Tiny Vote and the forthcoming One Tiny Boo, part of the One Tiny series that she is developing with her friends at Soulstir Books. She is also the illustrator of both The Leprechaun’s Game Day at Notre Dame and So Lucky to Have You.

Celia Lee is an executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she works with creators on all things illustrated, from picture books and early illustrated chapter books and middle grade to graphic novels for all ages. Recent books she’s edited include New York Times bestseller Growing Home, written by Beth Ferry and illustrated by The Fan Brothers, Harvey Award Nominee Free Piano (Not Haunted) by Whitney Gardner, Every Monday Mabel by Geisel Honoree Jashar Awan, and Are You a Friend of Dorothy? by Kyle Lukoff and Levi Hastings. She previously worked at Scholastic, where, in addition to editing, she helped start their employee diversity committee as well as coordinated their partnership with We Need Diverse Books ™. Celia served for two years as a member of the Children’s Book Council (CBC) Diversity Committee and is a mentor for POC in Publishing. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa at Virginia Tech, with a concentration in English Literature and Art History, and earned a MS in Publishing from NYU.

Jennie Dunham (AALA, SCBWI, Authors Guild member) founded Dunham Literary, Inc. in 2000 after working at three literary agencies. Her clients have been New York Times bestsellers and have won awards such as Boston Globe Horn Book Honor, New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, the Charlotte Zolotow Award, International Reading Association Award, and the Schneider Family Award. Her agency represents children's books for all ages from novelty and picture book through middle grade and young adult as well as literary fiction and non-fiction for adults.

Anjanette Barr is a literary agent at Dunham Literary, Inc. She represents books in all age categories and genres, but as a mother of four, she especially loves children's literature. Her favorite children's book are those that inspire children to wonder about the world around them and the people in it. When she's not reading or agenting, you'll find her hiking a trail in beautiful Juneau Alaska.