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Jeff Sampson |
Jeff Sampson started writing professionally at the tender age of eighteen, working on packaged series fiction—notably, the series Remnants by the great Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant. Several years later, at twenty-two, he had his first book published as part of the Dragonlance series of fantasy novels. He wrote four more novels for that sequence before striking off with his debut: Vesper: A Deviants Novel, forthcoming from HarperCollins Children's Books in winter 2011. {site}
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Crab Scrambly |
Crab Scrambly is a writer, illustrator, and creator of comics and children’s books for odd readers of all ages, among them The 13th of Never, the Floods series by Colin Thompson, and Who's Whom in the Tomb by Kurt Cyrus, forthcoming from Disney/Hyperion. His “Dark Wonderland” interpretations of Alice in Wonderland are infamous and appear on T-shirts and other merchandise. His stories are a one-of-a-kind blend of quirk and irksome, sweet and sour, all told with a dark wit. He lives deep in the bowels of Southern California. {site}
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Cindy Sherwood |
After working for nearly twenty years in broadcast journalism, Cindy Sherwood turned to freelance writing and editing and began pursuing her first love: writing for children. She uses her funny experiences as a mom and a Brownie troop leader to fuel her stories. She lives in Orange County, California, with her family. |
Joanna Solfrian |
Joanna Solfrian, a MacDowell Fellow, has published poems for adults in journals such as The Southern Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Margie. Recently she won the Wick Poetry Prize out of Kent State Press for her first collection, Visible Heavens. She works with teenagers in Brooklyn and Connecticut and is completing her first novel, a story in verse for teens. |
Jody Sparks |
Jody Sparks discovered she liked writing in high school, when she was the only kid to get excited about the five-paragraph essay. Later, in college, she had to write much longer essays about heady topics such as What It Means to Be Human—perfect training for writing for teens. When she's not working on her fiction, she's reading, watching movies with her husband and two daughters, writing copy at a design firm, or beating the pants off Josh Berk in Thunder Scrabble. {site} |
Sarah Tregay |
Raised without television, Sarah Tregay started writing her own middle grade novels after she had read all of the ones in the library. She later discovered teen books, but never did make it to the adult section. She lives in Eagle, Idaho. Her debut novel in verse, Love and Leftovers, will be published soon by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins. |
Jacqueline West |
Jacqueline West's fiction and poetry have been published widely in many journals including Chizine, Strange Horizons, and The St. Ann’s Review, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of THE BOOKS OF ELSEWHERE series. Jacqueline lives in Minnesota.{site} |
Yvonne Woon |
Yvonne Woon is an MFA student at Columbia University, where she writes adult and teen fiction. Among her many inspirations are zombies, chemistry, boarding school, and fauna. She resides in Manhattan. Her first novel, Dead Beautiful, is forthcoming from Disney/Hyperion. |
Sharry Wright |
Sharry Wright is a recent graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program where she nurtured her passion for writing teen fiction. Sharry lives in San Francisco with her husband, two daughters, a fat cat, and a gull-herding Sheltie. She spends most of her days at her writing table, overlooking Alcatraz. |
Bridget Zinn |
Novelist and pinch-hitting part-time librarian superhero, Bridget Zinn's debut Poison is forthcoming from Disney/Hyperion. When not writing young adult masterpieces or working on world domination, spends her idle hours cooking, traveling, trying on new boots and making short films. Her current secret lair is somewhere in Portland, Oregon, where she plots daring adventures with her husband and two cats. {site} |
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