MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Archive

Rebecca Stead writes novels for middle-graders, including First Light (Wendy Lamb Books 2007); When You Reach Me (2009), winner of the...

Don Tate has illustrated or authored numerous books for children.

April Pulley Sayre ('00) is an award-winning author/photo-illustrator best known for her lyrical, read aloud science. 

Maggie Stiefvater is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Shiver, Linger, Forever...

Graham Salisbury grew up in the Hawaiian Islands and graduated from California State University, Northridge. 

David Almond is a novelist, and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. 

Marcus Sedgwick was born and raised in East Kent in the South-east of England. He now divides his time between a small village near Cambridge,...

A founding WCYA faculty member, Marion Dane Bauer writes on topics of concern to everyone who is publishing or hoping to publish in the juvenile...

Lucy Christopher is the award-winning author of Stolen, Flyaway, and The Killing Woods. 

Henry Cole is an award-winning self-taught illustrator who studied forestry at Virginia Tech.