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Mac Barnett

Bio coming soon!
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Ashley Benham-Yazdani

Ashley Benham-Yazdani is a picture book author/illustrator and nature lover. She is passionate about arts education and has taught illustration courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and at Towson University. Her debut book, A Green Place to Be, is currently available from Candlewick Press and can be found at your local bookstore. Her tools of the trade are watercolors, colored pencils, and Photoshop, but she also enjoys embroidery, block printing, and screen printing. When not pushing pigment or pixels around, Ashley can be found reading, knitting, or running around in the great outdoors. She lives in Davis, CA with her husband and their two children.
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Kamilla Benko

Kamilla Benko is the bestselling author of Frozen II: Forest of Shadows and The Unicorn Quest trilogy. She spent most of her childhood climbing into wardrobes, trying to step through mirrors, and plotting to run away to an art museum. Now, she visits other worlds as an author. She currently lives in Indiana with her husband, daughter, and cat in a house next to a friendly willow tree. kamillabenko.com
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Stephen Bramucci

Stephen Bramucci is the author of The Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo and its sequel, The Danger Gang and the Isle of Feral Beasts. He has written for National Geographic, Afar, Fodors, and dozens of online and print outlets. As a travel and adventure writer, he has explored the Australian outback with the Jawoyn Indigenous people, tracked cheetahs by foot in South Africa, lived with Komodo Dragons on the island of Rinca, and trekked alone into the Ecuadorian Amazon. Steve is also the founding editor of Uproxx LIFE and the showrunner for Fresh Pair and People’s Party with Talib Kweli. He regularly appears on KTLA, The Young Turks, Foodbeast, and various podcasts, streams, shows, and events. www.stephenbramucci.com • IG: @steve_bramucci
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Byron Graves

Byron Graves is Ojibwe and was born and raised on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where he played high school basketball. When he isn’t writing, he can be found playing retro video games, spending time with his family, or cheering on his beloved Minnesota Timberwolves. Rez Ball is his debut novel.
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DeMareon Gipson

DeMareon Gipson is an award-winning polymathic wordsmith from Vallejo, California. In 2015, the premiere screening for his short film, “The Plan”, was selected by East Bay Express as a Pick of The Week. In 2017, the Academy of American Poets awarded him with the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize for his unique, provocative compositions. He is the author of the recently released children’s book “Annalise’s Cough”, which is a tale about environmental racism and eco-womanism. He utilizes the power of words in a variety of mediums, including the composition of children’s books, poetry, teaching, and community organizing.
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Michael Genhart

Michael Genhart’s text for Spanish is the Language of My Family is inspired by stories his mother told to him as a child. He is a clinical psychologist and the author of eight picture books including Love Is Love (a Notable Social Studies Trade Book) and Rainbow: A First Book of Pride, which Publishers Weekly called “A joyous tribute to LGBTQ families.” He lives with his husband in Marin County. They are the proud parents of a newly minted 5th grade teacher. When he’s not working or writing, you’ll find Michael gardening, on a hike, sitting around a dinner table with friends and family, traveling to different countries, enjoying live theatre and music, or sitting in a quiet space with a wonderful book.
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Hadley Davis

Hadley Davis is an author, essayist, and screenwriter with many writing credits, including the skating classic, Disney’s Ice Princess.
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Margaret Chiu Greanias

Margaret Chiu Greanias has been hooked on books for as long as she can remember. She lives in a busy household in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children and sometimes gets grumpy when she can’t find the time or space to read. She is the author of Amah Faraway and Maximillian Villainous.
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Donna Lambo-Weidner

Donna Lambo-Weidner was born in Germany and raised in New York. She completed her bachelor of arts degree at the Universität Tübingen through Stony Brook University. She writes books for children about adventures laced with her actual experiences. "There are No Dragons in This Book" is her first picture book. Donna Lambo-Weidner lives in California with her husband.