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Baek Heena

Baek Heena is one of Korea’s most recognized picture book artists. With a background in film animation, her unique visual style features handmade miniature figurines and environments painstakingly lighted and photographed. She has published thirteen picture books that are popular throughout Asia, a number of which have been translated.

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Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal) is a French comic book creator and film director.

Bilal was born in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from Karlovy Vary, and a Bosnian Muslim father, Muhamed Hamo Bilal who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor. When he was five years old, his father managed to take a trip and stay in Paris as a political émigré. Enki and the rest of the family followed him, four years later.

Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots. He said in one interview: "I also feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain friends, not to mention my oth

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Mats Jonsson

Mats Jonsson is a Swedish comic creator. Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt.

Mats Jonsson has been published in several Swedish newspapers and magazines. Many of his works have been collected in albums.

Currently, Jonsson is the editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Galago.

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BéKa

Pseudonym of Bertrand Escaich and Caroline Roque

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Matilda Ruta

Matilda Ruta is a freelance illustrator, author, designer and artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. With over ten years’ experience, she has worked for a wide range of print and design clients on web, childrens books, magazine design, murals, advertising campaigns and more.

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Eric Senabre

Né en 1973 en région parisienne, Eric Senabre est journaliste depuis plus de dix ans.
Lorsqu’il n’écrit pas, il joue du rock, se passionne pour les arts martiaux, dévore les films de série B et aime surtout la littérature fantastique du XIXème siècle.
Dans sa bibliothèque, on peut trouver de grands romans d’aventure écrits par Roberts Louis Stevenson ou Sir Atrhur Conan Doyle, mais en cherchant bien, on trouvera aussi des Comics des X-Men et des Mickey Parade. Car ce qu’il apprécie par-dessus tout, ce sont les histoires pleines d’imagination, les mystères à résoudre, et ce que l’on peut découvrir derrière la surface des choses connues.

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John Moore

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John Moore, English clergyman of Puritan views

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Hena Khan

Hena Khan writes books in a multitude of formats, including picture books, middle grade fiction, pick-your-path adventures, and graphic novels. Her stories are often centered around community, friendship, and family, and draw from her own experiences and culture. Hena’s novels include AMINA'S VOICE, MORE TO THE STORY, and DRAWING DEENA. She is the author of the Zayd Saleem Chasing the Dream, Zara’s Rules, and Super You! series. Hena’s picture books include GOLDEN DOMES AND SILVER LANTERNS, UNDER MY HIJAB, and IT'S RAMADAN, CURIOUS GEORGE, among others.

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Mats Strandberg

Mats Strandberg is an award-winning novelist and journalist. He is a regular columnist for Sweden's biggest evening newspaper, has been named Columnist of the Year by Sweden's Newspapers and Magazines organization, and had published three previous novels, with rights sold in numerous countries.

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Mats Jonsson

Mats Jonsson is a Swedish comic creator. Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt.

Mats Jonsson has been published in several Swedish newspapers and magazines. Many of his works have been collected in albums.

Currently, Jonsson is the editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Galago.

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Sara Bergmark Elfgren

Sara Bergmark Elfgren (a.k.a. Sara B. Elfgren) is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages.

Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, plays, screenplays and TV scripts.

She was born in Stockholm and still lives there. She has a degree in Film Studies. She enjoys reading, watching old movies, listening to music, playing video games and going for long walks. She is currently working on an opera libretto, a new novel and a children's book.

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Audrey Carlan

Audrey Carlan is a No. 1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. She writes stories that help the reader find themselves while falling in love. Some of her works include the worldwide phenomenon Calendar Girl serial, Trinity series and the International Guy series. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages across the globe.
She lives in the California Valley, where she enjoys her two children and the love of her life. When she’s not writing, you can find her teaching yoga, sipping wine with her “soul sisters,” or with her nose stuck in a sexy romance novel.
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Kathryn Ormsbee

Kathryn Ormsbee is the author of contemporary novels for children and young adults, including Growing Pangs, Candidly Cline, and Tash Hearts Tolstoy.

Her books have been critically acclaimed, translated into eight languages, selected for the Indie Next List and Junior Library Guild, and made “best of” lists at NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, and the Chicago and New York Public Libraries. She lives with her wife in Texas.

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Elin Persson

Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.

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Lily Williams

Lily Williams is the author and illustrator of the If Animals Disappeared nonfiction picture book series and graphic novels Go With The Flow and Look On The Bright Side (co-written with Karen Schneemann). Lily seeks to inspire change, engage audiences, and educate people of all ages with her artwork. Her work can be seen in films and books and on the web at lilywilliamsart.com.

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Veronica Agarwal

Veronica Agarwal is a cartoonist and illustrator from NY who loves sunflowers, summertime, and creatures of all kinds!

She's half-Italian, half-Indian, and her comics reflect the diversity she grew up with.

She has a BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts, and her works celebrate self care, girls of all kinds, and the little things that make every day special.

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Anne Gunn Halvorsen

Author and journalist, based in Oslo. Currently writing the YA-series Royalteen/Halve kongeriket with Randi Fuglehaug. Soon finished with my first non-fiction book for teenagers, titled Ikke vær redd - en overlevelsesguide for unge.

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Neda Alaei

Neda Alaei er oppvokst i Moss. Hun ble uteksaminert fra forfatterstudiet ved Norsk barnebokinstitutt i 2017. Hun er utdannet barnevernspedagog, og til daglig er hun miljøterapeut og jobber med ungdom. "Dette er ikke oss" er hennes første roman.

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Oliver Lovrenski

Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.

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Molly Brooks

Molly Brooks wrote and illustrated the Sanity & Tallulah graphic novel series (Disney-Hyperion, 2018-2021). She also did the artwork for Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared by Alison Wilgus (First Second, 2017), and Kathryn Ormsbee's Growing Pangs (Spring 2022) and Turning Twelve (Fall 2024), a duology about middle school, anxiety, friendship and first crushes from RHGraphic. Her shorter comics and assorted illustrations have appeared in a variet of publications including the Guardian, the Nib, the Boston Globe, the Nashville Scene, Kazoo Magazine, BUST Magazine, ESPN social, Sports Illustrated online, and others. Molly lives and works in Brooklyn, where she spends her spare time doting on her houseplants and documenting her cat

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Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen (born 1976) is a Canadian-American writer and physician. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008. She currently is an adjunct professor in the writing division of Columbia University's School of Art. In 2010, she was chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker.

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Ben Queen

Ben Queen is an American writer and producer. He was the creator/showrunner for the NBC television show A to Z. He wrote the screenplay for the Pixar animated movie Cars 2, and co-wrote the story for Cars 3

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John Moore

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John Moore, US SF & fantasy writer
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Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 and the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, NOON, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Creative Capital grant, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also runs the Pen City Writers, a creative writing program at a penitentiary in southern Texas.

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Van Gas

Van Gas (Kurt Van Gasse) geeft in zijn bovenkamer gratis onderdak aan een ingenieur en een jeugdauteur. Hij viel in de prijzen met columns en kortverhalen en maakt deel uit van het literaire collectief This Is How We Read. Door zijn vrolijke spreidstand tussen taal en techniek sijpelt flink wat wetenschap zijn werk binnen, samen met een genereuze scheut absurde humor.

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Markus Harwood-Jones

Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) is a proudly queer and trans space-case who has been writing since he can remember. Markus specializes in writing young-adult fiction and has a soft-spot for sappy love stories. He lives in downtown Toronto with his husband, their platonic co-parent, and their extra-cute kiddo. Markus is an aspiring TikTokker with 125k+ followers. He and can be found on social media under the handle @MarkusBones.

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J.R. Ford

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Dina Norlund

My name is Dina Norlund and I am an illustrator and character designer currently based in Norway. Most of my career has been focused on design, so when I do create illustrations I apply all the problem solving and designing that I have learned as a concept artist. I'm inspired by nature, magic and kids' imagination. I often draw on stories from my own childhood memories when creating my projects and books!

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Frida Nilsson

Frida Nilsson (born 1979) is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.

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Ralph Lazar

Ralph Lazar was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1967 and studied law and economics at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.

After several years of working in finance, Ralph moved with his wife-to-be Lisa Swerling, to Cerf Island (population of 52) in the Seychelles, where they (very remotely) started their illustration licensing business Last Lemon. Later based in London and now northern California, they have worked with many publishers including Chronicle Books, Penguin and Andrews McMeel in the US, and Harper Collins and DK in the UK.

Ralph and Lisa's book creations include the illustrated project Happiness is..., which has been translated into over 20 languages and has over 3 million followers online, and t

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Kristin Russo

Kristin Russo is a producer, speaker, podcaster, and consultant with a focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues.

Kristin speaks regularly to businesses and their Employee Resource Groups on topics such as creating equitable and safe(r) workspaces, being a powerful ally to colleagues and community, and parenting LGBTQ children.

Kristin has spoken at hundreds of universities nationwide including Harvard, Stanford, and NYU and has worked with large-scale companies such as Hyatt, Toyota, and Virgin Galactic. She was host and producer of First Person, a video series on gender and sexuality from PBS Digital and WNET and is the co-creator of My Kid Is Gay. Kristin has also authored three books: This is a Book for Paren

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Manjit Thapp

Manjit Thapp is an illustrator from the United Kingdom. She graduated with a BA in illustration from Camberwell College of Arts. Her illustrations combine traditional and digital media, and her work has been featured by Instagram, Dazed, Vogue India, and Wonderland Magazine.

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Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen

I am an SF author from Tampere, Finland. I have received the national Atorox award for best SF short story in 2020, 2021 and 2024. My first novel was published in June 2022.

Olen spekulatiivisen fiktion kirjoittaja Tampereelta. Olen voittanut parhaalle suomenkieliselle tieteis- tai fantasianovellille myönnettävän Atorox-palkinnon vuosina 2020, 2021 ja 2024. Esikoisromaanini Syntykeho, eli miten juosta pakoon ilman jalkoja ilmestyi kesäkuussa 2022 Osuuskumma-kustannukselta.

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Maria Parr

Maria Parr is a writer and high-school teacher. Adventures with Waffles, her debut novel, has been translated into twenty languages and won several awards around the world. Maria Parr lives in Norway with her family.

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Oskar Kroon

Oskar Kroon (1980) är före detta journalist som skolade om sig till bagare. Nu bakar han på deltid för att hinna med sin familj och att skriva.

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Maja Hjertzell

Maja Hjertzell is a writer and librarian.

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Christine Davenier

Christine Davenier is the award-winning illustrator of many picture books, including Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still by Karlin Gray and The Cat With Seven Names by Tony Johnston. Christine Davenier lives in Paris.

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Jan Sobrie

Jan Sobrie is een Belgisch schrijver, acteur en regisseur. Hij werkte bij gezelschappen zoals KVS, Theater Antigone, Kopergietery, Bronks, Het paleis, Tutti Fratelli en Theater Artemis. In 2009 werd Sobrie genomineerd voor de Vlaamse cultuurprijzen. Zijn theatervoorstellingen werden bekroond in binnen- en buitenland.

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Jyoti Rajan Gopal

Jyoti Rajan Gopal is a writer, mom and Kindergarten teacher. Growing up, she lived in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, India and China. She now lives in New York, in a quirky old Victorian in Yonkers, with her husband, where they raised their two daughters. Her favorite place in the house is the wrap around porch where she loves to gather with family or friends, read, write and drink coffee.

Jyoti writes stories that speak to her heart, that reflect her multiple identities, that she wishes her daughters had growing up, that she wishes her students had now.
When not writing or teaching, she loves to read - a lot! - work in her garden, dance and explore the many New York State Park trails.

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Andrew Ridker

Andrew Ridker is the author of the novels Hope and The Altruists.

The Altruists was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Paris Review staff pick, an Amazon Editors’ Pick, and the People Book of the Week. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it won the Friends of American Writers Award and was longlisted for the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize.

Hope, also a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Forward, and the Times of Israel. Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, it is currently in development with a major streaming service as a limited series.

He is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surv

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Marko Annala

Marko Annala (s. 1972) on metalliyhtye Mokoman keulakuvana tunnettu artisti ja kirjailija.

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Olivia Stephens

Olivia Stephens is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and writer from the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. Olivia has created work for a number of sites and publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Her debut graphic novel, Artie and the Wolf Moon, comes out from Lerner Books in Fall 2021. The story follows Artemis "Artie" Irvin, a fiercely independent eighth grader who's just discovered she comes from a family of werewolves. As she navigates her new reality, school bullies, and a first crush, she's also determined to find out how her human father died—and learns she isn't the scariest thing in the woods.

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Kerstin Lundberg Hahn

Kerstin Lundberg Hahn, född 22 april 1962, är en svensk barn- och ungdomsförfattare. Hon har bland annat producerat en serie pusseldeckare om Kajsa och Johan samt en annan serie om vardagsäventyren för tre klasskamrater (första boken var 2008 års Bakom masken). Båda bokserierna innehåller illustrationer av Jens Ahlbom.

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Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven was born in 1978 in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then she has written sixteen books, including children's books, several poetry collections, a novel, and two plays. Her work has been translated into Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. Among other prizes, she has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize (for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle). Her first crime novel is the prize-winning Everything Is Mine, which has become an international bestseller.

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Felipe Nunes

Felipe Nunes is a comic book artist and illustrator
Started working with illustration at 2010`s, colaborating to some brazilian magazines like Recreio and Mundo Estranho.
As a cartoonist, published his first graphic novel back in 2014, Klaus, who was claimed and nominated for three-HQMIX, winning Best New Cartoonist. After this, did his second one, DODÔ, who will be republished by Panini on Spring of 2017. This year, illustrated the first issue of `O Segredo da Floresta`, a teenager comicbook written by Thedy Correa and published by Stout Club / Panini.
Had some short stories for anthologies and three oneshots just in 2018 (ASFIXIOFILIA, FLÆSH and ARREBATAMENTO)
In 2019, released CLEAN BREAK, a sci-fi graphic novel, Jabuti Prize finalist and pu

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Justin Christopher

Justin Christopher is a bestselling author who has published 33 books for adults and children. He spent 15 years as a radio host on a nationwide breakfast show and is now a full-time author and TV producer.

Justin's latest novels for children are Stowaway Daze, Freakout Island, The Underers, and My Best Worst Year and Nanas With No Manners.

He shares a lively, creative home beneath a volcano in New Zealand with his wife, their two daughters, and a scruffy dog.

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Karen Latchana Kenney

Karen Latchana Kenney is an Indian-Irish children’s author, born near the equator in Guyana, and raised far north in Minnesota. Her debut picture book SNOW STEPS launched in November 2024 and was a 2025 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist and a 2025 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award Finalist.

She writes both fiction and nonfiction stories about immigrant and biracial experiences, scientific discoveries, momentous historical events, and civil rights struggles. Her newest YA nonfiction book, FASCINATING FUNGI, launches in October 2025 from Lerner Publishing. Kirkus gave it a starred review, saying it is "An extraordinarily well-researched, well-presented, and visually appealing book on a fascinating subject."

Her other children's books

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Suad Ali

Suad Ali, född 1990 i Somalia är statsvetare och har arbetat med migrationsfrågor på FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR, Utrikesdepartementet och Migrationsverket. Ali gjorde ett mycket uppskattat sommarprat 2018. Dina händer var fulla av liv är hennes romandebut.

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Karol KaeReL Kalinowski

Polski rysownik i scenarzysta komiksowy. Magister sztuki po kierunku projektowanie graficzne, pracuje jako bibliotekarz. Tworzy komiksy, robi muzykę, był jednym z prowadzących podcastu Schwing! Mieszka w Olsztynie.

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Anja Dahle Øverbye

Anja Dahle Øverbye er en norsk tegneserieskaper og illustratør. Hun er utdannet ved Kunstskolen i Bergen. I tillegg har hun en BA innen visuell kommunikasjon fra KIAD i England.

Hennes første tegneserieroman, Hundedagar, kom i 2015. Boka var inspirert av egen oppvekst på Nordvestlandet og er en oppvekstskildring om rivalisering mellom jenter i tidlige tenår. Den vant Årets tegneserie 2016 på Oslo Comix Expo.

Anja Dahle Øverbye gir også jevnlig ut tegninger og tegneserier på sin egen blogg, Haustlauv. Her har hun blant annet beskrevet sine personlige opplevelser ved å få en kreftdiagnose.

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Maya Prasad

Maya Prasad is a South Asian American writer, a Caltech graduate, and a former software engineer. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and raising her budding bookworm kiddo.

Her YA novels include Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things, a 2023 Children’s Book Council Young Adult and Librarian Favorite. Her STEM chapter book series starts with Sejal Sinha Battles Superstorms, an OWL Awards shortlist title and a NECBA Windows & Mirrors pick. She’s passionate about creating joyful representation for kids and teens across genres.

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Alyssa Zaczek

Alyssa Zaczek grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, where she spent her childhood writing stories about nervy girls and slowly amassing a landslide of books beneath her bed. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Playwriting, which she uses to justify her love of banter. When not reading or writing, she enjoys cooking, curating vintage clothing and making her partner laugh. She currently lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with said partner and their four animals. MARTIN MCLEAN, MIDDLE SCHOOL QUEEN is her debut novel.

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