Featured authors
T.L. Simpson
“Windows into lives nothing like our own are important.” – young-adult author T.L. Simpson Posted...
Anton Treuer
Posted January 3, 2025 Anton Treuer of Bemidji, Minnesota is a professor of Ojibwe who has...
Tom Birdseye
Tom Birdseye grew up in North Carolina and Kentucky, where he enjoyed sports and outdoor...
Tomi Oyemakinde
Tomi Oyemakinde grew up in London, UK before being uprooted at the age of six to the...
Peter J. Stavros
Peter J. Stavros is an award-winning author and playwright whose debut young-adult novel...
Edgar Calabria Samar
Edgar Calabia Samar, born in San Pablo City, Philippines in 1981, is the award-winning...
Michael F. Stewart
Michael F. Stewart, whom Kirkus Reviews has compared with Roald Dahl, is the award-winning...
Phil Earle
The best-selling, award-winning author of 25 books for children and young adults, Phil was...
Adrienne Kress
Adrienne Kress is a writer and an actress born and raised in Toronto, Canada. The daughter...
Stuart H. Brody
Stuart H. Brody is author of the young-adult novel Humphrey and Me (Santa Monica Press...
Kern Carter
Kern Carter was born in Trinidad and raised in Toronto, Canada, where he lives today. A...
Michael Solis
A graduate of Princeton University, Michael Solis holds masters’ degrees in human...
Dan Solomon
Dan Solomon is a freelance journalist in Austin, Texas who about sports, politics, music, tech,...
Daniel Aleman
Daniel Aleman is the Mexican-born author of Indivisible (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers,...
D.J. Williams
With the DNA of a world traveler, D.J. Williams was born and raised in Hong Kong, igniting an...
Tobias Madden
Tobias Madden is an author and editor with a passion for creating captivating young-adult fiction....
Giano Cromley
Giano Cromley is the author of two young-adult novels, The Prince of Infinite Space (Propertius...
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is a New York Times bestselling American journalist and author who has written 36...
Andrew Varga
Andrew Varga is a historian and author who writes middle-grade/young-adult novels set across...
Orson Scott Card
Q: Your background as a screenwriter has helped make your works accessible to a wide audience. How...
Heather Camlot
Heather Camlot is an award-winning author, journalist, editor and translator. Her nonfiction books...
Isaac Blum
Isaac Blum (he/him) is a writer and educator. He has taught English at several colleges and...
John Lekich
Vancouver, Canada’s John Lekich is a journalist, essayist and the author of several books for...
Francisco Montaña Ibáñez
Born in Bogotá, Francisco Montaña Ibáñez is one of Colombia’s bestselling authors for children and...
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
“Stories offer room to engage with multiple things at once, to tell stories that center people,...
Djokolelono
Djokolelono is the pen-name of an Indonesian writer and translator who is legendary in his region....
Eric Zweig
Eric Zweig has written more than 40 books, fiction and nonfiction, about sports and sports...
Randy Ribay
Randy Ribay (“REE-bye”) was born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S. Midwest. He's the...
Abdi Nazemian
Abdi Nazemian spent his childhood in a series of exciting locations (Tehran, Paris, Toronto, New...
David Pinckney
David Pinckney has written six graphic novels, several short and feature films and numerous pilots...
Brian Falkner
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Brian Falkner wanted to be an author ever since he was a child. It...
Tim Wynne-Jones
Photo by Mark Raynes Roberts Tim Wynne-Jones is the author of 17 children’s picture books, 16...
Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky Stephen Chbosky, a screenwriter and producer/director of both films and television...
Chris Crutcher
Chris Crutcher has written 13 novels (nine critically acclaimed), an autobiography and two...
Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle, one of Britain’s brightest literary talents, holds the Member of the British Empire...
Bernard Beckett
Bernard Beckett is the author of eight young adult novels, numerous plays and four films. He has...
Jeff Fleischer
Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based journalist, editor, author (and newlywed!) who has written five...
Wesley King
Wesley King is a Canadian author of young adult and middle grade fiction books. Both novels he...
Nic Stone
Photo by Nigel Livingstone Nic Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of eight young-adult...
Glen Huser
Glen Huser is a library-consultant-turned-author who has won many prestigious awards. His first...