Nick Thomas is Executive Editor at Levine Querido in the U.S.A. He has previously held roles at Bloomsbury, Chicken House, David Fickling Books, and Arthur...
Cynthia Leitich Smith (she/her) is the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate as well as a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling children’s-YA writer, a writing...
Author and filmmaker, Brian Young is a graduate of both Yale University with a Bachelor’s in Film Studies and Columbia University with a Master’s in...
Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of the YA historical novel Torch (Carolrhoda Lab, 2022), winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young...
VCFA alumnx Lyn Miller-Lachmann (WCYA ‘12) was awarded the distinguished Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature in the spring of 2023 for...
Kelly Starling Lyons is a founding member of The Brown Bookshelf, teaching artist and award-winning children’s book author. Her mission is to center Black heroes,...
Evan Griffith is the author of the middle-grade novel Manatee Summer (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection) and the picture book biography ...