MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

DONNA JO NAPOLI is both a linguist and a writer of children’s
and YA fiction. She holds a BA in mathematics and
a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, both from
Harvard University. She also studied at MIT. She has since
taught linguistics at several distinguished universities.
KATIE QUIRK wrote the middle-grade novel A Girl Called
Problem after living and teaching in Tanzania. She currently
lives in Maine and is working on a book about raising
her son in India.
GERRY RASMUSSEN is an internationally syndicated
cartoonist who draws the comic strip Betty. Gerry’s first
book, Crazy About Soccer!, paired his talents with those
of poet, Loris Lesynski. Following in the footsteps of that
success is Crazy About Basketball!
KATHERINE ROY is an author and artist living in New
York City. The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned
Man’s Canyon is the first novel she has illustrated.
JOHN STANLEY and his wife, both lawyers, hope their
twin boys will grow up to be explorers or scientists or historians
or teachers but will still love them if they become
lawyers, too. This is his first book. He lives in Durham, N.C.
COURTNEY STEINMEL is the author of All the Things
You Are, Sincerely, Positively, and My So-Called Family.
She graduated with honors from Barnard College and
attended Fordham University School of Law.
MARK TATULLI is an internationally syndicated cartoonist
best known for his popular comic strip Heart of the City
and Lio. Tatulli is also an accomplished filmmaker and animator,
and the recipient of three Emmy Awards.
S.S. TAYLOR has a strong interest in books of all kinds,
expeditions, old libraries, mysterious situations, longhidden
secrets, missing explorers, and traveling to known
and unknown places. The Expeditioners and the Treasure
of Drowned Man’s Canyon is her first novel.
PEGGY TIERNEY founded Tanglewood Publishing in 2003.
She has been a children’s book editor and publisher in the
UK and in the US since 1995. She has a degree in comparative
literature from the American University of Paris.
SHIRLEY REVA VERNICK’s writing has appeared in many
national publications. She also runs a popular storytell-
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ing website, storybee.org. Her first novel, The Blood Lie,
was the recipient of several awards, including the Simon
Wiesenthal Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award.
VIIIZ, Vahram Muratyan and Elodie Chaillous are founders
of ViiiZ, an art direction and graphic design studio created
in 2005 in Paris. They graduated from the acclaimed
Parisian design school ESAG-Penninghen. They are the
authors of Fill in the Blank (Quirk Books, 2012).
MCKENZIE WAGNER, Twelve-year-old McKenzie Wagner
wrote her first book, The Magic Meadow and the Golden
Locket, at the early age of seven, and wrote her second book,
The Blue Lagoon and the Magic Coin, shortly thereafter. The
Benotripia series are McKenzie’s first published novels.
HILARY WAGNER is the founder of the blog Project
Mayhem. Her first novel, Nightshade City debuted in 2010.
The White Assassin released in 2011, and her latest book,
Kings of Trillium, comes out this year. She also writes for
National Geographic School Publishing.
STEVE WESTOVER graduated from Brigham Young University
with a BA in Political Science, and currently works
in banking. Steve is the author of the Crater Lake series
and has also published two FBI thrillers: Defensive Tactics
and Gold Clash.
A.B. WESTRICK has been a teacher, paralegal, literacy
volunteer, administrator, and coach with Odyssey of the
Mind and Reading Olympics. A graduate of Stanford
University and Yale Divinity School, she received an MFA
from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2011.
DORINE WHITE is the founder of the blog The Write Path. She
earned a BA in Humanities from Brigham Young University.
She lives in Washington state with her husband and six children.
Cleopatra’s Legacy: The Emerald Ring is her first novel.
ELISABETH WOLF, Lulu in La La Land is Elisabeth’s first
book. Lulu in Honolulu comes out in 2014. Before writing the
Lulu series, Elisabeth worked in media and government. She’s
a graduate of Smith College and Stanford’s School of Education.
She was a Fellow with the National Coro Foundation.
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