Lauren Markam
Lauren Markham is a writer based in Berkeley, California, focusing on issues related to youth, migration, the environment, and her home state of California.
Susan Kuklin
Susan Kuklin is the award-winning author and photographer of more than thirty books for children and young adults that address social issues and culture, including No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row and Beyond Magent
Aida Salazar
Aida Salazar is a writer, arts advocate, and home-schooling mother who grew up in South East LA.
Jarod Roselló
Jarod Roselló is a Cuban-American cartoonist, writer, and teacher from Miami, Florida. His debut graphic novel, The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found, was published in 2015 by Publishing Genius Press.
Celia C. Pérez
Celia C. Pérez is the author of The First Rule of Punk, a 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book, a 2018 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Winner, and a 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Honor Book.
Emma Otheguy
Emma Otheguy is the author of the picture books Martí's Song for Freedom, which received five starred reviews, and Pope Francis: Builder of Bridges.
Rebecca Balcárcel
Rebecca Balcárcel received the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as the North American Review. She is an associate professor of English at Tarrant County College. She lives in Bedford, Texas.
Sebastià Serra
Sebastià Serra has illustrated more than seventy children's books in many countries including Inky's Great Escape: The Incredible (and Mostly True) Story of an Octopus Escape; A Pirate's Twelve Days of Christmas; and A Pirate's Night Before Christmas.
Isabel Quintero
Isabel Quintero was born and raised by Mexican immigrant parents in Southern California's Inland Empire. She earned her BA in English and her MA in English Composition at California State University, San Bernardino.
Zeke Peña
Zeke Peña is a cartoonist and illustrator from El Paso, Texas. He studied Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and is self-taught in illustration and painting.