Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Amada Irma Perez

    Amada Irma Pérez is a third-grade teacher in Oxnard, California, and a leading advocate of programs encouraging multicultural understanding. Like many of her students, Amada Irma was born in Mexico...
  • Joshua Isard

    Joshua Isard is the director of Arcadia University’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, a program that he developed. Since the program has a study abroad component,...
  • Kai Issa

    Kai Issa is a freelance writer and managing editor with The Howard Thurman Papers Project at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Jackson Issa lives in Clarkston, Georgia, with her husband and...
  • Kai Issa

    Kai Issa is a freelance writer and managing editor with The Howard Thurman Papers Project at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Jackson Issa lives in Clarkston, Georgia, with her husband and...
  • Nat Iwata

    Nat Iwata has worked as an art director, 3D artist, illustrator, professor, and animator on everything from video games to children’s books. His debut picture book, Sumo Joe, was called...
  • Malathi Michelle Iyengar

    Malathi Iyengar is a poet, writer, and teacher. She currently teaches at a public elementary school where she is happy to see lots of beautiful brown faces every day. Malathi...
  • Aaliya Jaleel

    Aaliya Jaleel is a student at the University of Texas-Dallas, where she studies animation and enjoys trying new dessert places with her friends. Under My Hijab is her first picture...
  • Leslie Jean-Bart

    Leslie Jean-Bart photographs and photo collages have appeared in New York Magazine, Newsweek, and The New York Times. A native of Haiti, he received a masters degree in journalism from...
  • Deneen Jenks

    Deneen Jenks and her husband, Rick Noguchi, are a husband and wife team who live in Culver City, California. Flowers from Mariko is their first children’s book.
  • John Jennings

    John Jennings co-edited the Eisner-nominated anthology The Blacker the Ink. He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the Nasir Jones Hiphop...
  • Cindy Jenson-Elliott

    Cindy Jenson-Elliott is a science and writing teacher for children of all ages and adults, and is the author of 18 nonfiction books for children. She is an ocean swimmer,...
  • Ruth Jeyaveeran

    Ruth Jeyaveeran is the author and illustrator of The Road to Mumbai, praised by School Library Journal as a “lively romp across India.” Much of Jeyaveeran’s fine art and illustration...
  • Ji Li Jiang

    Ji-Li Jiang is the author of Red Scarf Girl (an ALA Notable Book), her own account of growing up in China under the Cultural Revolution. Born in Shanghai in 1954,...
  • Emily Jiang

    Emily Jiang is the American-born daughter of Chinese American immigrants, and she has been writing poems and stories since she was five years old. She holds an MFA in Creative...
  • Moisés Jiménez

    Armando and Moisés are the grandsons of Manuel Jiménez, founder of the Oaxacan woodcarving tradition. In the late 1950’s, shepherd Manuel Jimenez began making wooden animals. The pieces were bought...
  • Susie Lee Jin

    Susie Lee Jin was born in San Francisco, California. She earned a master’s degree in fine art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and works full-time...
  • Leslie Johnson

    Leslie Johnson was born in Mendacino County, California. She is a cultural anthropologist, and after teaching anthropology, including Native American history and culture, for many years, she became interested in...
  • Larry Johnson

    Larry Johnson has illustrated several children’s books, including Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni, When Joe Louis Won the Title, and Lee & Low’s The Secret to Freedom, praised by School...
  • Dolores Johnson

    Dolores Johnson was born in New Britain, Connecticut. Growing up, she wanted to be an artist, just like her big brother. Dolores received her BFA from Boston University and is...