by WeldonNgetich | Oct 7, 2022 | archive authors, featured authors
Born in Bogotá, Francisco Montaña Ibáñez is one of Colombia’s bestselling authors for children and young people. His novels, poetry and short stories — recognized for their seriousness and depth — circulate in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Canada,...
by WeldonNgetich | Sep 5, 2022 | archive authors, featured authors
“Stories offer room to engage with multiple things at once, to tell stories that center people, places and ideas that have historically been marginalized.” Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian fantasy, science fiction and general speculative author. Son of the...
by WeldonNgetich | Aug 5, 2022 | featured authors, archive authors
Djokolelono is the pen-name of an Indonesian writer and translator who is legendary in his region. At seventy-eight, he has written close to fifty books for young children, middle-graders, young-adults and adults. His debut novels, Getaran (“Vibration”) and Fall to...
by Pam Withers | Jun 30, 2022 | archive authors, featured authors
Eric Zweig has written more than 40 books, fiction and nonfiction, about sports and sports history, for adults and children, as well as articles for The New York Times and many Canadian newspapers. He has also been a writer/producer/researcher with organizations...
by Pam Withers | Jun 3, 2022 | featured authors, archive authors
Randy Ribay (“REE-bye”) was born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S. Midwest. He’s the author of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops and the more recent Patron Saints of Nothing, a powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt...
by Pam Withers | May 6, 2022 | archive authors
Abdi Nazemian spent his childhood in a series of exciting locations (Tehran, Paris, Toronto, New York), but could usually be found in his bedroom watching old movies and reading. He studied at Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Connecticut that inspired his...
