by Stephanie Candiago | May 5, 2025 | featured authors, archive authors
“When I learned [what authors were], I remember thinking, “Wow, that must be the coolest job in the world.” — David A. Poulsen, author for youths Posted May 2, 2025 David A. Poulsen, a writer/broadcaster in Alberta, Canada, has written 31 books over the past 41 years,...
by Pam Withers | Mar 7, 2025 | featured authors, archive authors
“Windows into lives nothing like our own are important.” – young-adult author T.L. Simpson Posted March 7, 2025 T.L. Simpson is author of two young-adult (YA) novels: Strong Like You and Cope Field (both Flux/North Star Editions, 2024 and 2025 respectively). He is...
by Pam Withers | Jan 3, 2025 | featured authors, archive authors
Posted January 3, 2025 Anton Treuer of Bemidji, Minnesota is a professor of Ojibwe who has written or edited more than 20 nonfiction books for adults, emphasizing history and American Indian studies. These include Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but...
by Pam Withers | Oct 21, 2024 | featured authors, archive authors
Tom Birdseye grew up in North Carolina and Kentucky, where he enjoyed sports and outdoor fun. He wasn’t into reading until age 19, when a friend shoved a book in his face and said, “You’ve got to read this, no excuses.” It was The Hobbit, by J.R.R....
by Pam Withers | Sep 9, 2024 | featured authors, archive authors
Tomi Oyemakinde grew up in London, UK before being uprooted at the age of six to the Netherlands, then Kuwait, Norway and Scandinavia. The child of Nigerian immigrants, he considers himself a “third culture kid.” While attending a boarding school in England, he...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | featured authors, archive authors
Peter J. Stavros is an award-winning author and playwright whose debut young-adult novel comes out in August 2024 (The Thing About My Uncle, BHC Press). He is also author of the young-adult basketball novella Tryouts. A licensed attorney, former reporter for...
