Category: Immigrant & Refugee Perspectives

Rush
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming…
Sriram
Meera
Meera draws from her life straddling the East and West to tell stories. She grew up in India and moved to…
Stamper
Vesper
Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Vesper Stamper has been an illustrator for over 20 years and…
Sterling
Michelle
Michelle Sterling is a children’s book author, photographer and speech-language pathologist living in Ora…
Stone Leahy
Elisa
Elisa Stone Leahy is a queer, Peruvian-American children’s author who lives with her husband and kids in …
Sylvester
Natalia
Natalia Sylvester is the Pura Belpré and Schneider Family honor winning author of the young adult novel B…
Tahmaseb
Ryan Bani
Ryan Bani Tahmaseb is an author, K-12 academic coach, and curriculum developer. His debut picture book, R…
The Beautiful & Banned
Christine Renee Miller fancies herself an expert. Perhaps it’s because she always seems to play one on sc…
Vasquez Gilliland
Raquel
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Mexican American poet, novelist and painter. She’s most inspired by fog and…
Wallace Johnson
Kirk
Kirk Wallace Johnson is an author and screenwriter.  His books include The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear…
Amy Panucci
Heather
Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of eight historical novels. In 2015, R…
Wong
Jack
Jack Wong (黃雋喬) is the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning author/illustrator of WHEN YOU CAN SWIM (Scho…