Ifueko
Jordan Ifueko is the NYT Bestselling Author of the RAYBEARER series & the Disney-Marvel comics MOON GIRL & DEVIL DINOSAUR. Her work has been published in 10+ languages. She’s a multi-time finalist at the Hugo Awards, and she’s been featured in People Magazine and NPR Best Books. She writes about magic Black girls who aren’t […]
Monsef
Kiyash’s debut novel, ONCE THERE WAS, became an instant New York Times bestseller, and went on to be a finalist for the William Morris Award, as well as garnering numerous state reading awards and accolades. It was named Middle Grade Book of the Year by Target, and was a finalist for Book of the Year […]
Bundy-Sichol
LOWEY BUNDY SICHOL is an award-winning author with an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is a pioneer in teaching entrepreneurship and business to kids, working hard to inspire the next generation to think big and believe in their ideas. Her book series “From an Idea to…” has earned literary […]
Prince
Leona Prince is a Dakelh woman from the Nak’azdli Whut’en, belonging to the Lhts’umusyoo (Beaver Clan), and a proud member of the Lake Babine Nation. She is an educator, author, researcher, entrepreneur, and advocate whose work focuses on Indigenous education, land-based learning, family engagement, language revitalization, and reconciliation. Leona currently serves in educational leadership and […]
Rowe
Claudia Rowe has been writing about the places where youth and government policy clash for 35 years. Her book Wards of the State: the Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction. And her true-crime memoir, The Spider and the Fly: a Writer, a Murderer and […]
Sage
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree and Métis memoirist, journalist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, model, public speaker, and digital storyteller from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). Her debut memoir, Soft as Bones (House of Anansi Press), became an instant national bestseller and achieved Globe and Mail bestseller status. Its initial print run of 8,000 copies sold out in […]
Davis
DeAndra Davis is an award-winning neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author who lives somewhere in the mountains. Her debut ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE, a young adult contemporary novel, has been the recipient of many awards, inlcuding: the Amelia Elizabeth Walden award, the Robie Harris Youth Choice award, the Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality award, and the William C. […]
Sorensen
Annie Stone is one-half of the author duo behind the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series The Wolves of Ruin. Sable Sorensen is the pen name for Eliza and Annie, two fantasy fangirls who grew up on a steady diet of wizards, magical creatures, and sweeping love stories. Dire Bound, (March 2026),took the […]
Brodie
Emma Brodie is the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Blue, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, and Songs in Ursa Major which received the American Book Award. She is an executive editor at Clarkson Potter, where she has collaborated with many incedible authors including Mary Oliver, Christian Watson, Danielle Robay, Gloria Steinem, Jo […]
Smith
Brady Smith is a painter, actor, muralist, and children’s author & illustrator, whose books include You’re Missing It!, I’m Getting A Shark!, Bug Sandwich, and Random Acts Of Drawness! His Young Reader graphic novels include: Louie and Bear in the Land of Anything Goes, Louie and Bear Bite Back, Maxwell Dark: Nightmare Hunter, and Maxwell […]