Our Authors and Illustrators
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Kathleen Benson
Kathleen Benson long served as an educator, curator, and project manager at the Museum of the City of New York. With her late husband, Jim Haskins, she co-authored some twenty... -
JaeMe Bereal
JaeMe Bereal is a fine artist and sculptor who, like Augusta Savage, discovered her passion at a young age. But unlike Savage, Bereal comes from a long line of supportive... -
Aamir Lee Bermiss
Aamir Bermiss grew up in Brooklyn, New York, a son of an African American mother and a Puerto Rican father. He was the youngest of three boys, until his baby... -
Shiraaz Bhabha
Shiraaz Bhabha was born and raised in India, and now lives in California. A gifted fine artist and website designer, Shiraaz had her first major show of paintings in Berkeley,... -
Rayhan Bhuyan
Rayhan Bhuyan, originally from Bangladesh and currently living in Canada, is a graphic designer creating children’s books through traditional and digital illustrations. Rayhan is grateful for the opportunity to work... -
Simon Black
Simon Black teaches in the English department at Cal State LA. He is currently a writer on the animated show Chico and Guapo, which debuts in October on MTV2 and... -
Sheila Black
Sheila Black is the author of over 40 books for children and young adults as well as the author of two poetry collections and two chapbooks. Black was chosen as... -
Alberto Blanco
Alberto Blanco is one of Mexico’s most outstanding poets. He is the award-winning author of over 20 books, including The Desery Mermaid published by Children’s Book Press. -
Derek Blanks
Derek Blanks received his B.F.A. degree from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. He has served as a painter and freelance illustrator for galleries, museums, and art publications,... -
Colin Bootman
Colin Bootman has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, including Almost to Freedom, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Book. Bootman grew up in Trinidad and the United States.... -
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is a poet and writer of numerous children’s books, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Dear Mrs. Rosenwald, The Sound That Jazz Makes,... -
Robert Boswell
Robert Boswell is the author of eight works of fiction, most recently Century’s Son (Alfred A. Knopf). His book on craft, The Half-Known World (Graywolf Press), has just been published.... -
Charles Bowden
Charles Bowden was an investigative journalist who spent much of his career covering the drug wars in the American Southwest. He passed away of natural causes in 2014. -
Geneva Bowers
Geneva Bowers illustrated the children’s books The Dragon Thief, Beyoncé: Shine Your Light, and Curls, among others. She won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist and a 2018... -
Charlene Bowles
Charlene Bowles is a Mexican American comic artist and illustrator from South Texas. In addition to the Tales of the Feathered Serpent series, she has illustrated several readers for educational... -
David Bowles
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas, where he teaches literature and Nahuatl at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Among his forty published... -
Donna Janell Bowman
Donna Janell Bowman grew up on a quarter horse ranch where she trained for horse shows and developed her passion for writing. When she first heard about Doc and Jim... -
Aaron Boyd
Aaron Boydhas illustrated numerous picture books, including Calling the Water Drum, Janna and the Kings, and Babu’s Song for Lee & Low Books, as well as the chapter book The... -
Linda Boyden
Linda Boyden is of Cherokee and French Canadian ancestry. She is an enrolled member of the United Lumbee Nation. In addition to writing, Boyden works with elementary school children on... -
Rus Bradburd
RUS BRADBURD is the author of Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richard (HarperCollins) and Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops (UNM Press). He...
