O’Shaughnessy
Kate O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning middle grade and young adult author. Her books have won numerous distinctions and awards, including a Newbery Honor, the Northern California Book Award, and the Vermont State Book Award. Her work has been nominated for over thirty state award reading lists and recognized on best-of lists by places and publications […]
Marvel
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. Until April 2026, she was a research physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Now she is a Senior Climate Scientist at Project Drawdown. A former cosmologist, Marvel received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University and trained as […]
Danger
Laura Danger is an author, educator, facilitator, and leading voice on domestic equity, invisible labor, and the relationship dynamics that shape our everyday lives. She is the author of No More Mediocre: A Call to Reimagine Our Relationships and Demand More, published by Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her writing has appeared in […]
Cerra
Kerry O’Malley Cerra is an award-winning author of middle-grade books and picture books. Her first novel, Just a Drop of Water, was published on September 2, 2014, by Sky Pony Press. It won a Florida Book Award, the Crystal Kite Award, and was named to VOYA’s Top Shelf Fiction for Middle Readers’ 2014 list. In […]
de Sève
Randall de Sève is a New York Times bestselling author of award-winning picture books that have been translated into many languages worldwide. All of her stories spring from real life, then take shape in her imagination. An early childhood educator and parent to two (now) young adults, Randall sees children’s literature as an invitation to […]
Cummins
Jeanine Cummins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose novels have been an Oprah Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, as well as a #1 Indie Next pick. She was born on a US Naval Base in Rota, Spain, and spent most of her childhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland. When […]
Haskell
David George Haskell is a writer and biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His most recent book, How Flowers Made our World, explores the creative powers of flowering plants. Haskell is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for […]
Stark
Peter Stark is an adventurer and historian. Born in Wisconsin, he grew up in an outdoorsy family and with a father who had a passion for American frontier history. Stark graduated with a BA in English and Anthropology from Dartmouth College and an MA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, then struck off for […]
Cannon
Jess Cannon is the fiction pseudonym of Jessica Goudeau. She spends her days writing award-winning journalism and her nights plotting fictional murders. She lives with her family and an irascible blue heeler in Austin, Texas, where her funky community is a constant source of joy (and writing material). She has a PhD in literature from […]
Kamoie
A Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today Bestseller, Laura Kamoie [Kuh-MOY, she/her] has always been fascinated by the people, stories, and physical presence of the past, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study, training, and teaching. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College […]