Mercedes Acosta
Mercedes Acosta (full name Mercedes Cibayara Maria Catarina Acosta) is a Cuban-Americ..
Mercedes Acosta (full name Mercedes Cibayara Maria Catarina Acosta) is a Cuban-Americ..
Malín Alegria is the author of seven books for young readers. Her publications and c..
Fahmida Azim is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Bengali-American illustrator, author, and te..
Carmen Bogan is a children’s author, publisher, and frequent lecturer to nonprofit ..
Leila Boukarim was born in Lebanon and has lived in eight countries. After over a dec..
A Mexican-American author, poet, and translator, David Bowles is a life-long resident..
Monica Brown is the author of the LOLA LEVINE chapter book series and 30 award-winnin..
Clelia Castro-Malaspina (Gore) is the co-author, along with Allison Matulli, of the u..
Lisa Congdon is a Portland-based fine artist, illustrator and author known internatio..
Adrianna Cuevas is a first-generation Cuban-American originally from Miami, Florida. ..
Elaine DePrince is the co-author along with her daughter, Michaela DePrince, of Taki..
Zohreh Ghahremani is an author, speaker, and painter whose work is heavily influenced..
Born in the Dominican Republic to her Catholic Paraguayan mother and Jewish American ..
Laurel Goodluck writes picture books with modern Native themes that reflect Native ..
Theresa Howell is the co-author of Maybe Something Beautiful with F. Isabel Campoy..
Primarily a poet, Harold Green III is an ever-evolving artist with a skill set that..
K. Ibura is an author, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. An adve..
Cindy Jenson-Elliott is an author, credentialed teacher, environmental educator, and ..
Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, is an internationally published author, psychologist, and ..
When Michelle Lee isn’t Dr. Lee, teaching composition and literature as a professor..
Emery Lord is a Midwestern girl who writes stories about high school and best friends..
Diana López is the award-winning middle grade author of Confetti Girl, Ask My Mood R..
Allison Matulli, J.D., M.Ed. is a former attorney and certified Montessori lead educa..
Jasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, translator and award winn..
Cameron Mukwa is an illustrator primarily working in graphic novels. His work shares ..
Congratulations Celia winner of the 2023 Pura Belpré Author Honor and 2023 Tomás Ri..
Andrea Pippins is an illustrator and author passionate about creating images that ref..
Tirzah Price grew up on a farm in Michigan, where she read every book she could get h..
Rekha S. Rajan is a nationally recognized educator, performer, and STEAM expert whose..
Isabel Strychacz is from a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Mill..
Named State Poet Laureate of Texas in 2015, Dr. Carmen Tafolla is an award-winning po..
Originally from New Mexico, Latino illustrator Alexander Vidal studied anthropology, ..
Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor and poet. She writes..
Iranian American author of MEMORY GARDEN Zohreh Ghahremani’s NOWRUZ, about a little girl’s efforts to prepare her home for Persian New Year, a holiday observed by Iranians and millions of other people around the world, illustrated by MEMORY GARDEN illustrator Susie Ghahremani, to Laura Godwin at Godwin Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in winter 2026, by Lilly Ghahremani at Full Circle Literary.
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