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Katrina Moore writes and teaches in a part of New Jersey just outside Philadelphia. Earning an MA in elementary education, she’s also taught in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. Her mission is to create books that children will hug for ages, like her debut picture
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A.I. Newton always wanted to travel into space, visit another planet, and meet an alien. When that plan didn’t work out, he decided to do the next best thing—write stories about aliens and space travel! The Alien Next Door series gives him a chance to
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Ari North is a queer cartoonist who believes an entertaining story should also be full of diversity and inclusion. As a writer, an artist, and a musician, she wrote, drew, and composed the music for Always Human, a complete romance/sci-fi webcomic about two queer girls navigating
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Erin Peabody, author of the Behind the Legend series, loves getting young people excited about the fascinating and quirky workings of our natural world. She’s worked as a park ranger at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico,
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Adam Perry is the author of The Magicians of Elephant County. The son of an elementary school librarian, he discovered a love of stories at an early age. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with his wife, children, and a growing collection of books. To the best
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Karly Pierre grew up in the heart of the Louisiana Creole/Cajun countryside surrounded by sugarcane fields. She comes from a family of farmers and educators who instilled in her a love of nature and adventure. She is a professor in South Korea where she currently resides.

Smriti Prasadam-Halls is an award-winning, bestselling children’s author whose books include Publishers Weekly #1 bestseller I Love You Night and Day. She is published in more than 40 languages worldwide. Her books are always full of hope and heart and speak to the child in all
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Melody Reed is a chapter book, middle grade, and YA author. She loves creating strong female characters and writing about outer space and Mars. She lives in Silicon Valley with her family.

Tiffany Rose is a left handed illustrator and author. She is currently living and working in Paris, France. She’s a lover of coffee, wanderlust, massive curly Afros, and children being their imaginative, quirky, free selves. She is a full time teacher, part time author-illustrator, and
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Rob Sanders is a picture book author, a writing teacher, a sometimes blogger, and a dog lover. He worked for fifteen years in religious educational publishing as a writer, editor, editorial manager, and product designer. These days, he teaches elementary school kids about books and words
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Lisa Ann Scott is a former TV news anchor who now works as a voice actor and children’s author. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, two children, and their cats, dog, and koi fish. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in
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Andy Shepherd is a children’s writer of middle grade fiction and picture books, and the author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons. She lives near Cambridge with her two sons and their border collie. She spends her spare time trying to figure out how to
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Christopher Silas Neal is an illustrator and designer who has published numerous celebrated picture books. He is the illustrator of Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt (Chronicle Books) as well as Over and Under the Snow (Chronicle Books), which won the E.B.
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