Who's Who In The KidLit Authors Club |
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WENDY MASS is the author of nine books for young readers, including A Mango-Shaped Space, Jeremy Fink & the Meaning of Life, Every Soul a Star, and 11 Birthdays. She wrote the storyline for a Monk episode that aired during the show's second season. She tells people her hobbies are hiking and photography, but really they're eating candy and searching for buried treasure. She lives in northwest New Jersey with her husband and twins. |
ALISON ASHLEY FORMENTO’s first picture book This Tree Counts! (Albert Whitman & Co.), proves that trees are for more than just climbing. Alison has written for several publications including The New York Times, The Writer and Parenting. Besides writing everyday, Alison dreams of someday building a spectacular tree home. |
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JEANNINE NORRIS was inspired to write Tonight You Are My Baby (HarperCollins) when she became a mother and experienced the miracle of Christmas with her own children. She is a frequent presenter in the schools and finds many budding authors in the audience. She lives with her family in |
NAN MARINO is the author of the middle grade novel Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me (Roaring Brook). Originally from New York, she currently works as a librarian at the Jersey Shore, where she lives with her husband and their very energetic dog. |
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JENNIFER R. HUBBARD lives and writes near Philadelphia, PA. She is a night person who believes that mornings were meant to be slept through, a chocolate lover, and a hiker. She has written short fiction as well as the contemporary young adult novel The Secret Year (Viking). |
AMY HOLDER is the author of The Lipstick Laws, her spring 2011 debut. In her free time she likes fighting grammar crime... such as enforcing the proper usage of they're, their, and there. She resides in the Philadelphia, PA area with her verbally challenged accomplices (2 cats and 2 dogs). |
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CYN BALOG is a normal, everyday Jersey girl who always believed magical things can happen to us when we least expect them. She is the author of young adult paranormals Fairy Tale, Sleepless, and two forthcoming novels from Delacorte. She lives outside Allentown, PA with her husband and daughters. |
NANCY VIAU is a former teacher and the author of Samantha Hansen Has Rocks In Her Head (Amulet Books), a novel for kids 8-12, and It's Not Easy (Abrams), a picture book (forthcoming). When not glued to her computer or running defense for her children, she skips out of rural NJ in search of adventure. |
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JOSH BERK is the author of The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (Knopf), and has a second comedy/mystery young adult novel coming from Knopf in 2011. He has previously been a journelist, poet and playwright, and a pretty bad guitarist. He is a librarian and lives in a cornfield in Allentown, PA with his wife and little ones. |
KERI MIKULSKI is the author of the upcoming Pretty Tough series 3-6 (Penguin/Razorbill), Screwball and Change Up. An athlete her entire life (back in the day when softballs were white), Keri teaches writing at Stockton College and resides at "situation free" Jersey Shore with her family. |
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LEE HARPER is a painter and illustrator living in Doylestown, PA. Lee is the illustrator of Woolbur by Leslie Helakoski (HarperCollins) and Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano (Marshall Cavendish). Lee is also the author/illustrator of Snow! Snow! Snow! (Simon & Schuster), and he recently completed illustrations for Looking for the Easy Life by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins). |
TIMOTHY YOUNG is the author, illustrator and pop-up engineer of I'm Looking For A Monster! (Random House) He has worked as an art director, toy designer and animator and has designed his own App for the iPhone. He loves talking |
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IRENE BREZNAK wrote stories as soon as she could print; however, she made them up long before that. Her parents called them fibs; she preferred “fiction writing in the making”. Irene shares her life with Tom, her two teenage sons and their huge appetites. Sneezy Louise is Irene's debut picture book. |
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