Anna Myers says: The sixth child in a family of seven, I was born in west Texas. My oldest brother told me I was found in a tumbleweed. I knew he was teasing, but part of me wanted to believe the story.
“Our family moved back to Oklahoma when I was only six months old,
Barbara O’Connor grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English, she headed to Southern California. An interest in writing for children led her to take classes at UCLA to learn the basics.
Since publication of her first children’s biography in 1993,
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Rita Williams-Garcia is the author of several acclaimed novels for young adults: Blue Tights (1987), Every Time a Rainbow Dies (2001), Fast Talk on a Slow Track (1991), Like Sisters on the Homefront (1995), No Laughter Here (2004),
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Betty Boop & Lupe
Author Lupe Ruiz-Flores was once an aerospace engineering technician. In her heart, however, she was always a writer. She has worked as a staff writer for a local newspaper and has ghost written short stories for a national magazine. Some of her poetry has been published in anthologies as well.
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Phyllis with her daughter’s retired sled dog Cirrus
I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and now live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I’ve been for the last thirty-seven years. I’ve been writing for children for thirty-two years and have published over forty books,
Pat Mora savors writing, presenting, and also promoting creativity, inclusivity and bookjoy.
Her new picture book, The Beautiful Lady: Our Lady of Guadalupe (Random House), will be published December 2012.
Among her award-winning books for young people are Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love (Knopf);
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Canadian author Frieda Wishinsky has written many acclaimed books for children including Please Louise, illustrated by Marie Louise Gay (Groundwood Books, 2007), which won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and Explorers Who Made It…Or Died Trying (Scholastic Canada,
Margaret with young readers
Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio, and is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio.
She worked as a newspaper reporter and community college instructor before her first book was published in 1995.
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Kelly Bennett has a long history of rambling (they used to call it running away/disappearing/lollygagging).
They say the first thing Kelly did, after being born, was to voice her opinion—loudly!
Her love of writing can be traced back to 1960, when she was two-ish,
“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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