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Ying Chang Compestine

Ying Chang Compestine is an award-winning author, speaker, and television host. She has written twenty-five books for adults and children, including the acclaimed novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party, which chronicles her experience of growing…

Jennieke Cohen

Jennieke Cohen is a Filipina American author of young adult historical fiction. Her debut novel, Dangerous Alliance, was a Junior Library Guild selection and has been translated into multiple languages. Her second novel, My Fine Fellow, is a…

Lily Chu

Lily Chu loves ordering the second-cheapest wine, wearing perfume all the time, and staying up far too late reading a good book. She writes uplit fiction set in Toronto with strong Asian characters, most recently The Comeback.

Mark Ciabattari

Mark Ciabattari is a cultural historian and author. His grandparents left Lucca in Tuscany in the 1890s and settled in a sizable Italian community in Butte, Montana, where he was born. He studied at Stanford (on a football scholarship; he was…
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Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, is a former National Book Critics Circle president (and current NBCC vice president/events), a Lit Hub columnist, BBC Culture contributor, on the advisory boards of the…

Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody is the author of The Rendering and Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. His debut has been recognized as a winner of the 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award and a 2020 Southwest Book Award,…

Tom Comitta

Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. Comitta’s fiction and essays have…

Amy Seto Forrester

Amy Seto Forrester is a youth services supervisor at the Eugene Public Library who is passionate about diverse, engaging books for beginning readers. An active member of ALA and ALSC, she is co-founder and co-host of the Guessing Geisel blog…
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Charlotte Cheng

Charlotte Cheng’s writing credits include Night Market Rescue, Explore China: A Mulan Discovery Book and BoBo Loves Dumplings, and she has illustrated the picture books Silly McGilly and A Moment in Time. In the field of education, she has…

Joan Frank

Joan Frank is the award-winning author of twelve books of literary fiction and essays, including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place. Her latest work is the literary autobiography Late Work. She…