“You can have one year off to write.” That’s what Kimberly Willis Holt‘s
husband told her back in June 1994. She didn’t own a computer so she
began to write on yellow legal pads.
Since then she’s written seventeen
books, and won many awards and honors,
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Carolyn Crimi, pirate queen
Carolyn Crimi received her MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College in 2000.
She has published thirteen books, including Don’t Need Friends, Boris and Bella, Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies,
Brent on Mount Townsend (6500 feet in a day)
Brent Hartinger is the author of a number of novels for children and teenagers, including three books in the Russel Middlebrook series: (1) Geography Club (HarperCollins, 2003), (2) The Order of the Poison Oak (HarperCollins,
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Ron Koertge is the author of a dozen or more books for young readers. Most of his novels are ALA choices and two (Strays (2007) and Stoner & Spaz (2002), both Candlewick) are PEN prize winners.
He is also an accomplished poet with grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council.
A Ph.D. in Economics (The Ohio State University, 1974), J. Patrick Lewis (“Pat”) turned to children’s poetry at age forty.
He has since published 80 children’s poetry and picture books to date with Creative Editions, Knopf, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic,
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Julie Anne Peters is the author of 18 books for young adults and children, plus short stories in anthologies, and she looks forward to a new novel to be released in 2014.)
Her YA novel, Luna, was a National Book Award finalist, a Colorado Book Award winner,
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