Our Authors and Illustrators
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Tracy Occomy Crowder
Tracy Occomy Crowder is an avid mystery lover and community organizer. She has worked to address issues of racial equity across Illinois for the past thirty years, particularly in education,... -
Claudia Oemer
Claudia Oemer is a German Ecuadorian translator based in Quito. She has worked in translation for more than a decade in the academic, literary, and business realms. She is trilingual... -
Fernando Olivera
Fernando Olivera is an internationally acclaimed painter who lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was fascinated with the story of Lucia Zenteno ever since he first heard it from his close... -
Eric Olson
Eric OIson is a versatile illustrator from Winnipeg, Manitoba, with project experience in branding, publication design, and cartooning. He uses traditional and digital Illustration in his graphic design. Eric has... -
Therese On Louie
Therese On Louie makes her picture book debut with Raymond’s Perfect Present. She currently teaches ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.... -
Craig Orback
Craig Orback is a fine artist who has illustrated many highly praised books for children, several of which focus on historical subjects. The Can Man especially appealed to Orback because... -
Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Kristy Orona-Ramirez (Taos Pueblo/Tarahumara) grew up in California’s San Gabriel Valley. From an early age, she showed a penchant for the creative arts, and has been writing short stories and... -
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz is a Puebloan writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American... -
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz is a Puebloan writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American... -
Mariana Osorio Gumá
Mariana Osorio Gumá is a psychoanalyst and writer. She has published seven books of fiction in Spanish, three of which have been selected by the International Board on Books for... -
Emma Otheguy
Emma Otheguy is a children’s book author and a historian of Spain and colonial Latin America. She is a member of the Bank Street Writers Lab, and her short story... -
Kathryn Otoshi
Kathryn Otoshi is a cat lover and an award-winning author and illustrator who has always wanted to do a children s picture book based on her own Japanese heritage. She... -
Sara Palacios
Sara Palacios was born in Mexico City. She holds degrees in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Digital Graphic Techniques, and is pursuing her MFA in Illustration at the Academy of Art... -
Genna Panzarella
Genna Panzarella is an artist and teacher living near San Francisco, where she and her husband raised two sons. When she is not teaching or creating art, you will find... -
Ginger Park
Ginger Park and her sister Frances Park are the co-authors of My Freedom Trip, winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award, and The Royal Bee, a Parents’ Choice Commended Book.... -
Frances Park
Frances Park and her sister Ginger Park are the co-authors of Where on Earth is My Bagel?, published by Lee & Low Books, and The Have a Good Day Cafe.... -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) devoted herself to the nonviolent pursuit of human rights, especially young people’s rights, since refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a...
