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Luciana Navarro Powell
Luciana Navarro Powell was born in Brazil and worked as a product and graphic designer before becoming an illustrator. She incorporates watercolor, photographs, and scanned objects into her artwork. She lives in San Diego, California. View →
Sandhya Prabhat
Sandhya Prabhat is an independent animator and illustrator from India. She has published nearly a dozen picture books. She also animates videos and designs e-stickers. View →
Sheela Preuitt
Sheela Preuitt enjoys writing nonfiction books on STEM topics for children. She is awed by the unfathomable magnitude of our universe and loves to share that admiration with the young readers through her books. She has a masters in Science Education, a masters… View →
Liz Prince
Liz Prince is the Ignatz Award-winning author of Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? (Top Shelf Productions, 2005), the world’s cutest relationship comic. She is a regular columist for Razorcake magazine, has drawn covers and stories for the wildly popular Adventure Time… View →
Kiki Prottsman
Kiki Prottsman is a computer science educator, as well as the author of several books, including Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student, My First Coding Book, How to Be a Coder, and Disney’s Coding with Anna and Elsa. In her spare time, Kiki runs an educational YouTube View →
Karen Cherro Quiñones
Karen Cherro Quiñones became interested in the early history of New York City while working in the Wall Street area where many sites dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can still be seen. She eventually left her corporate career to become a full-time historian. Her… View →
NoNieqa Ramos
Raised in the Boogie Down Bronx, NoNieqa Ramos is an educator and literary activist. She wrote the young adult novel The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary and the picture book Hair Story. She believes Halloween is a lifestyle, not a holiday. If you’re in Virginia, you might catch… View →
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Atlanta-based playwright, photographer, and folk art painter, grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and Roxboro, North Carolina. In addition to having been a year-round resident of Martha’s Vineyard, Calvin has a passion for travel and has lived in New York City; View →
Candice Ransom
Candice Ransom is the author of 150 books for children. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and an MA in children’s literature from Hollins University. She currently teaches in Hollins University’s graduate program in children’s literature. View →
Amariah Rauscher
Amariah Rauscher is the illustrator of the popular Princess Truly series. When she isn’t painting, Amariah can usually be found reading a book. She lives in Illinois with her family. View →
Henrik Rehr
Henrik Rehr has been a cartoonist for more than thirty years. He was born in Denmark and lives with his family in New York City. View →
Sarah Richman
Sarah Richman is a writer, author, and poet based in Washington, DC, where she helps run a magic shop and writing center. Her work is published across the United States and Scotland. She likes good tea and bad jokes, and believes that well-told stories can change the world. View →
Scott Riley
Scott Riley is a middle school English teacher who was inspired to write about Prasit Hemmin and Koh Panyee’s floating soccer field after visiting the Thai island in 2018. He currently lives with his family in Singapore. View →
Charlotte Riley-Webb
Charlotte Riley-Webb, a professional visual artist with a career that spans more than 40 years, resides in the Atlanta area. Find her online at www.charlotterileywebb.com. View →
Caryn Rivadeneira
Caryn Rivadeneira dreamed of two things as a kid: being a writer and having lots of dogs. Both came true. Caryn and her rescued pit bull live in the Chicago suburbs. View →
Trina Robbins
Writer and feminist herstorian Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over 30 years. Her most recent books are The Brinkley Girls (Fantagraphics) and Forbidden City: the Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press). Her newest graphic novel is the… View →
James Roland
James Roland is a lifelong journalist who found his niche covering education and health. In his spare time, he loves writing books for children. James lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife and three children. They are all history and Scrabble buffs who love to gather at the table,… View →
Lorraine Roscoe
Lorraine Roscoe is an author of books for children and young adults. She currently lives in Pennsylvania. View →
Michael J. Rosen
Michael J. Rosen is the acclaimed author of some three dozen books for children of all ages (and even more for grown-ups!), including The Cuckoo’s Haiku and Other Poems for Birders; Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Famiy’s Farm (which he both wrote and illustrated with some… View →