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Jennifer Baker is an author and editor/project manager with over 20 years’ experience in book publishing. She’s also the creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and has been a faculty member at Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction and The City College of New York. In 2019, she was named Publishers Weekly Superstar [ Read the full article… ]
Rachelle Baker is a multi-disciplinary artist from Detroit, MI with a background in Relief Printing (Screenprinting, Lino/Woodcutting), Illustration, Comic Art, Video Art, and Music. She is inspired by Shoujo manga, anime and comics bad girls, stoic women dancing in the backgrounds of late 90’s/early 2000’s R&B videos, and the sound cats make when they’re yawning. [ Read the full article… ]
“That was the thing about families. They knew even the things you wanted to keep secret.” — excerpt from Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who writes genre- blended speculative fiction with dark themes, complicated families, and edges of hope. Her debut novel Blood Like Magic garnered multiple starred reviews and [ Read the full article… ]
Tonya Abari is a Nashville-based independent journalist, author, essayist, author collaborator, and reviewer for both children and adults. With a wide range of interests including parenting, Black maternal health, food, travel, lifestyle, environment, personal wellness, and culture, her words have been published in the Nashville Scene, Essence, AllRecipes, AARP, Ambrook, The Kitchn, USA Today, Publishers [ Read the full article… ]
Over a career spanning 69 years, Jerry Pinkney became one of the most revered and respected children’s book illustrators in America, if not the world. His evocative drawings and paintings won him international acclaim and brought more than 100 children’s books to life. As one of America’s pre-eminent Black illustrators, many of Jerry’s books prominently [ Read the full article… ]
Shawn Pryor’s (he/him) work includes the upcoming middle-grade graphic novel Fast Break (FSG/Macmillan, 2026), Kaiju Unleashed (Quarto/Epic Ink), and Who Is Shaun White? (Penguin Random House), The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop (Capstone), the hi/lo reader series The Gamer (Capstone), Cash and Carrie (Action Lab Entertainment), and several [ Read the full article… ]
Alliah L. Agostini has marketed everything from iconic brands to scrappy start-ups, but motherhood helped this Harvard AB and MBA school graduate return to her first love: children’s literature. She writes to spread joy, truth, and to help more children see themselves reflected on the page. Alliah is the 28 Days Later Day 6 honoree. [ Read the full article… ]
Khadijah VanBrakle is a Muslim woman of color living in the southwestern US. As someone born and raised in Canada to American parents, she writes to ensure teens who share her Black American & Muslim dual marginalization see themselves on the printed page. She was chosen as one of the recipients of a two-year, 2021 [ Read the full article… ]