Meet the Faculty

Katrina Moore is an author and former elementary educator. Earning an M.A. in Teaching, she has over thirteen years of experience in classrooms and schools across multiple states. She writes in Georgia, where her mission is to create books that children will hug for ages. She is the author of the acclaimed and beloved picture books, THE STAR IN YOU, CHANG'E ON THE MOON, HOPE IS A HOP, SOMETIMES LOVE, ONE HUG, GRANDPA GRUMPS, its companion, GRUMPY NEW YEAR, and the forthcoming SCHOOLTIME GRUMPS (summer 2026), and more. She is also the author of the humorous chapter book series, TEENY HOUDINI, starring the magic-loving, mayhem-making Bessie Lee, and the forthcoming BIG JOB FOR LITTLE BABIES board book series, illustrated by Benson Shum. Her books are published by Macmillan, HarperCollins, Penguin/RandomHouse, Little Bee Books, and Abrams Appleseed, and she is represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House, LLC. When she is not writing, she is cooking without a recipe, painting outside the lines, adventuring, or snuggling up with her two kids, husband, pups, and of course, a cozy book. Connect with her on twitter @kmoorebooks, instagram @katrinamoore1011, or at www.katrinamoorebooks.com.

Chris Negron resides in Forsyth County, GA and is the author of several novels for children. His 2020 debut, Dan Unmasked, was a finalist for Georgia Author of the Year in the Young Adult category in 2021, was nominated for the Sakura Medal in Japan in 2023, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, and was selected for the Indies Introduce list by the American Booksellers Association (ABA).

He often describes his second novel, The Last Super Chef as “Willy Wonka meets Gordon Ramsey.” It was named to the Indies Next list in 2021, again by the ABA. Chris’s latest novel, Underdog City, released this past fall and was published, as all three of his novels are, by HarperCollins. It features plenty of dogs, an ornery rooster, and a main character fighting through feelings of anxiety in an attempt to bring his community together. Publishers Weekly calls it a “discerning celebration of connection and healing.”

Chris holds a Computer Science degree from Yale University. His desire to write started young, an outcropping of his years of playing Dungeons & Dragons in friends’ basements. But he didn’t truly start his pursuit of this lifelong dream until much later. He’s usually inspired to write stories for kids about the things he loves most, including comic books, baseball, competitive cooking shows, and dogs. Visit him at chrisnegron.com.