Matt Phelan
Matt Phelan is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author/illustrator of picture books, middle grade novels, and graphic novels for young readers. Matt...
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Emilie Upczak
Emilie Upczak is originally from the mountains above Boulder. She is an independent filmmaker, an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and...
Daphne McWilliams
Daphne McWilliams began her career in front of the camera as a child actor and behind the camera producing music videos for Blues Traveler, the...
Clifford Thompson
Clifford Thompson’s books include What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (2019), which Time magazine called one of the “most anticipated”...
Chachi Hauser
Chachi D. Hauser (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker. Chachi’s debut book, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know, was published in March...
Damon Davis
Damon Davis (b. 1985) is an award-winning, post-disciplinary artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. In a practice that is part therapy, part social commentary, his...
Don DiNicola
Don’s music career began in the 1980s. He worked extensively in regional theater, notably The American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA) and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company...
Evan Griffith
Evan Griffith is the author of the middle-grade novel Manatee Summer (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection) and the picture book biography ...
Erica S. Perl
Erica S. Perl (she/her) is the author of more than forty popular and critically-acclaimed books for children and teens. A former criminal defense attorney, she...
Veera Hiranandani
Veera Hiranandani is the award-winning author of several books for young people. Her most recent middle-grade novel, How to Find What You're Not Looking ...