Aida Salazar

Award-Winning Author, Arts Activist & Translator

Brenda Maier

Children's Book Author & Public School Educator

Tod Olson

Author of "How to Get Rich" Series

Sarah Darer Littman

YA Novelist; Known for Author of "Deepfake," "Backlash," "Some Kind of Hate"

Christine Kendall

NAACP Image Award Nominee. Author of "The True Definition of Neva Beane"

Gale Galligan

New York Times Best-Selling Cartoonist; Graphic Novelist

Alyson Gerber

Children's Book Author; Known for "Braced," "Focused," and "Taking Up Space"

Elisha Cooper

New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year Author; Children's Book Illustrator

Go behind the scenes of YES & NO with Elisha Cooper

Angela Cervantes

Pura Belpré Honor Award-Winning Novelist

Ross Burach

Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Leah Johnson

Award-Winning Author of "You Should See Me in a Crown"

Marc Tyler Nobleman

Author & Central Figure in Documentary "Batman & Bill"

Gordon Korman

Children's Book Author

Andrea Davis Pinkney

New York Times Bestselling Author and Award-Winning Author of Many Children and Young Adult Books

Jennifer Nielsen

Young Adult Fiction Author Known for "The Ascendance Trilogy"

Sayantani DasGupta

NYT Best-Selling Author; Physician & Narrative Medicine Scholar

Bruce Hale

Author, Storyteller & Speaker Known for his "Chet Gecko" Chapter Book Series and "Clark the Shark" Picture Books

Clark the Shark Afraid of the Dark

Dan Gutman

Children's Fiction Author

Francisco X. Stork

Author of "The Memory of Light"