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Edward Bloor
A former teacher, Edward Bloor moved onto becoming a senior editor at Harcourt Brace School Publishers in 1986 before trying his hand at writing. His debut novel, Tangerine, was named one of the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, among other honors, and he has subsequently written four other critically acclaimed, hard-to-put-down novels (Crusader, Story Time, London Calling, and Taken) as well as contributing to several anthologies. He lives in Florida and still divides his time between editing and writing.
Learn more at http://www.edwardbloor.net/
Susan Juby
Born in Alberta and raised in Smithers, British Columbia, Susan Juby obtained a degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia and began writing in her mid-twenties. Her debut novel, Alice, I Think, was published in 2000 by Thistledown Press. Two sequels and a TV show based on the Alice MacLeod books followed, as well as widespread critical acclaim for her ‘homage to oddballs everywhere’. Juby has since written two other novels, Another Kind of Cowboy, and her latest work, the hilarious Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery. She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Learn more at http://www.susanjuby.com
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry grew up as the solitary middle child of a military family. She pursued advanced degrees in literature before turning to her first love of writing. She has won the Newbery Award twice, for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994), which is part of a trilogy that includes Gathering Blue and Messenger. Her most recent books for young readers are the self-illustrated farce on the orphan tale, The Willoughbys, and Gooney Bird Is So Absurd. As she writes in her web site, her works try “to convey [her] passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Learn more at http://www.loislowry.com/index.html
Delia Sherman
Delia Sherman attended Vassar College and Brown University, where she obtained her PhD in Renaissance Studies, and began writing fantasy fiction while teaching courses in literature and composition. Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove, won the Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Fiction in 1994, and she has since gone on to write many other novels and short stories, including the New York Between novels Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. She continues to write, lecture, and lead workshops, and serves on the board of the Interstitial Arts Movement. She lives with fellow fantasist and author Ellen Kushner in New York City.
Learn more at http://www.sff.net/people/kushnersherman/sherman/
Paul O. Zelinsky
Paul O. Zelinsky always had a compulsion to draw as a child, but never thought that being a book illustrator would be his career, until as a sophomore at Yale he took a course on the history and practice of the picture book. The course was led by Maurice Sendak. What he learned from that class inspired him to focus on illustrating children's books, with his first book appearing in 1978. He has gone on to illustrate and write picture books, which include the beloved Wheels on the Bus, the Caldecott-winning Rapunzel, as well as Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel, all three of which were Caldecott Honor Books. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife, a retired elementary teacher.
Learn more at http://www.paulozelinsky.com/
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