MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

Martine Leavitt has published ten novels for young adults, most recently Calvin, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award of Canada.

Mary Quattlebaum is the author of 23 books for all ages, including picture books (Pirate vs. Pirate, The Hungry Ghost ...

Shelley Tanaka is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books for children and young adults, including seven titles in the award-winning I Was There...

Uma Krishnaswami is the author of more than 25 books for young readers, including picture books, middle grade novels, a chapter book, and early readers. ...

An Na was born in South Korea and grew up in San Diego, California.

Tom Birdseye was decidedly uninterested in writing as a kid – or any academic aspect of school, for that matter – never imagining that he would...

Alan Cumyn is the author of the beloved Owen Skye children’s novels—The Secret Life of Owen Skye, After Sylvia...

Louise Hawes has published books for readers of all ages.

Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist living in Toronto, Ontario. 

Siobhán Parkinson writes novels, mostly for children and young people. She says herself that she writes “to the imagination.”