flower gardener, poet #PB writer inspired by nature & ocean life 🌳🌸🌞🌙💦 #RA #SCBWI #12x12 #CtC | Storied Ink on Substack https://substack.com/@jpuglow #NSTA #ALA #AAAS #MightyKidLit
https://joyceuglowauthor.com repped by Liza Voges at Eden Street
Rep'd by Keely Boeving. PB writer, #scbwi, #12x12, copyeditor, dog mom, mom of 3, actor, instructional designer, baseball fan, soccer mom, baseball mom, Red Sox Nation, rhymer, pickleball player, cake decorator
Kidlit author & award winning illustrator, game artist, dog & nature lover. Dragon tamer. Also a picture taker & city gardener. She/her. Supporter of diversity!
Rep'd by Samantha Wekstein - @swekstein.bsky.social
www.tracivanwagoner.com
#PaintPlay for fun
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
🩷Represented by Hen & Ink Literary https://henandink.com
💚SCBWI Southern Breeze IC
🩵Illustrator/Author: Prettylines.com
💛Gato Sign up! https://linktr.ee/prettylines
✨Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
We are an independent children's book publisher with a focus on re-readability. https://gnomeroadpublishing.com/
Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
website: kidlit411.com
Writer of stories for little ones; seeker of joyful endeavors…
#KidLit author of MY PIANO ('23) SIDEWALK CHALK (09/25) BECAUSE OF YOU I’M A SISTER and MY VIOLIN (2026).
linktr.ee/jenfierjasinski
Photo Credit: Hilary Heincer Photography
Cupcakes Illustration: @tarajhannon.bsky.social
Big fan of kids and cake. 🍰.
Children’s writer • Poetry lover • Mom of 7
Kidlit Honors: Ann Whitford Paul Awards 2024 & #PBParty 2025
Writes lyrical PB, quirky stories, & speculative upper MG/YA
SCBWI Eastern PA CoRA | Former K–12 Teacher | kcstrocchia.com
1/8 hosts: #KidlitZombieWeek
West coast illustrator & writer🤖🦕🛼
Short, left-handed, adhd, lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Nature & neon
Rep'd by @jemiscoe.bsky.social -Starling Literary & Media
@starlingliterary.bsky.social
PBs: MAYBE A WHALE | MOTHER ASPEN
www.heycrystalsmith.com
Acquiring editor for Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials, the leading publisher of social & emotional learning books for kids, teens, & educators. Write for us! She/her
Kidlit Author Illustrator - BIRTLE early graphic novel series (AMP Kids) THE ONLY GHOST IN SCHOOL & THE ONLY GHOST AT SUMMER CAMP (Penguin Workshop Aug 2025)
www.tarajhannon.com
An Artist! Loves Cartoons, Anime, Video Games, Animals and Books!
~ Creator of 'Niji The Phoenix' and 'Rizomar' ~
Book, nature and young people lover, publishing nonfiction picture books and writing whatever else I want. Former Creative Writing, Composition, and Survey of Children's Lit prof at Miami Dade College, now writing full time.
Author. Illustrator. SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator LA/MS Region. Loves to draw. Loves really weird animals. Denisegallagher.com
🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social at CMA Lit
🌟 SCBWI member
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
Intermittent artist, full time marketing professional | 32 | UK
ART FEED: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:taoiuq6t7rsbwvl5mvmok5ps/feed/aaabnrdwbc6yg
ART TAG: #pixiegutsart
Sleepier half of @oshieman.bsky.social
twitch.tv/pixieguts
linktr.ee/pixieguts
Creative Director @disneyhyperiondesign , potter, Wife, Mom, Sister, Feminist, Friend, Ally, List maker, Headstrong Club.
Hi!
I am an author/illustrator of picture books!
Illustrator Coordinator for Nevada SCBWI
Sarahpicturebooks.com
Literary agent and founder@greatdoglit. News geek. Science freak. Working to become a better photographer. Opinions are my own.
Animator and Illustrator from Kansas City!
Regional Advisor for KsMo SCBWI
Trying out new socials
Author & Illustrator of Moon’s Ramadan, Lulu In The Spotlight, Bela and Lily, Sun's Eid ✨ Repd by Tanusri Prasanna
she/her/hers
www.natashakhankazi.com
Highlights Muslim Storyteller Fellow
Based in LA
Author of Dancing Through Fields of Color, Like a Diamond in the Sky, The World Entire ‘25 and The Right to Play-8/25! Rep’d: Sean McCarthy Literary Agency. www.elizabethbrownbooks.com
#EduSky Retired Gifted Ed and English teacher. From NE Wisconsin. Tired of the division, hate, lies, corruption. 🕊️❤️ Also tired of men hitting on women here the way they do on Facebook. NO DM’S!!!INSTANT BLOCK!
Bestspelling author.
World chess ranking: 8,263,401,754.
WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK! (2025)
WHEN THE WITCH WROTE BACK! (2026)
Visit me here: https://hellonathan.ca
Join the "PB Workshop" Discord here: http://discord.gg/KSYfkNg
Rep'd by: Lilly Ghahremani
Children's picture books to read and read again!
Check out my portfolio: https://www.berrietr.com/ Contact me: berrietr@gmail.com
#kidlit published #author/illustrator, who would love to cooperate with you in creating beautiful and meaningful #picturebooks for kids.
Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
Children's Book Author. Speaker. Sibert Honoree. 2x Green Earth Book Award winner. Celebrating #environmentaljustice #nature #STEM
https://linktr.ee/patricianewmanbooks
K-2 Music Teacher, kidlit author (repped by Joyce Sweeney), Debut PB 2026, Happily married woman of faith, #PBJamz multimedia blog of #PB (picture books) and #Jamz (music) www.tonnyefletcher.com
KidLit Author, Photographer, Educator
2 trad pub #PB #STEM + #Kindness
Here to connect with #Teachers, #Librarians, #Kidlit #Edusky
https://lauraroettigerbooks.com/
@picturebookgold.bsky.social 🚫DM
#HaikuSaturday #WordlessWednesday
Editor and writer. Résumé specialist (CPRW). Book award judge. Dog hugger. Science fiction, kidlit, and anything else with themes of possibility. she/her
#SCBWI #ACES #EFA #IBPA
detaileddraft.com
🙋🏼♀️kidlit author 👩🏼💻 proud Mama Bear 🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 “Though she be but little, she is fierce.” #PitchMe 23 winner #PBParty Honorable Mention 2024
Children's and YA Book Lovers' Awards. Honoring diverse voices and inclusive stories for kids and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
Children's book author. NE-SCBWI co-ARA. Director of Whispering Pines Writers’ Retreat. #kidlit #PB #MG #12x12 www.pamvaughanauthor.com
Science-lovin' children's author of HOW TO EAT IN SPACE (2023) and CHASING GUANO (2024). Fan of cuttlefish & cupcakes. #NF #STEM #Kidlit #SCBWI Rep: Amy Tompkins/Transatlantic
https://linktr.ee/heyhelentaylor
Award-winning author of WHO NEEDS A FOREST FIRE #NautilusAward #SkippingStoneAward #IndieExcellenceAward #middlegrade #nonfictionkids #picturebooks #educator #kidlit #12x12 www.paulahenson.com www.terrabellabooks.com
Birder, #kidlit author, former park ranger turned full-time mom. Military spouse. Good thing Im happy living anywhere with cool critters and creative kids. she/her.
#50PreciousWords ‘24 Winner | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #PB | #amquerying
www.mfmwrites.com
🎨 Author & Illustrator | Surface Designer
📖 If You Are an Artist (Peter Pauper Press 2024) When Night Sleeps (Post Wave 2027)
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
🎨 Custom Pet Portraits
📧 megauchenbach@gmail.com
💻 www.megauchenbach.com
picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️🌈
Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central
PBParty2025 Finalist!
www.caitdarfler.com
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social
Artist, Designer, Children's Picture Books #SCBWI: The Gentleman Bat, Too Many Tables
http://www.TheGentlemanBat.com
https://instagram.com/thegentlemanbat
http://www.facebook.com/TheGentlemanBat/
Author: Wishes of the World (starred Foreward Review), PB; Nakie Cakes, We Don't Need Sugary Frostings!, cookbook
#PB #CB #YA #SCBWI #12x12 #RYS #kidlit
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-stiveson-author/home
■BOY Mom ■Wife ■ #SCBWI ■Writer 📚 #WIFYR (Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers) BOOK CLUB Host 📋 President VZC Library Board 📒 #WritingCommunity #12x12PB
Picture book author and illustrator. One part of The Fan Brothers. Repped by Kirsten Hall, Catbird Agency.
www.thefanbrothers.com
Hi! I'm Mia Wenjen. I blog at PragmaticMom.com, run nonprofit ReadYourWorld.org, and write children's books (MiaWenjen.com).
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MiaWenjen
TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
📚 Debut picture book author
❤ I Love Harriet Kippley (by myself and Alessia Girasole) is now available
📚 SCBWI
💜 BTS army since 2019
Host of....
📚 #ChatWithThePBLady
🥳 #PartyWithPicturebooks
🔎Zoom into Picture Books
✍#KidlitCritiqueDay
☀️Author
☀️BUILDING A BEAK (Page Street, 2024)
☀️JUST A SHELL…OR IS IT? (Abrams, 2026)
☀️JUST A PUDDLE…OR IS IT? (Abrams, 2027)
☀️Rep: Joyce Sweeney www.beccamcmurdie.com
Writer of #picturebooks and #MG for kids. Seeking representation. Member of #SCBWI and Storyteller Academy. 2023 Kids' Choice Kidlit Writing Contest Finalist. Proud father/supporter of a nonbinary child and a child with cerebral palsy.
Reader, Writer, and Editor of Kid-lit
Children’s Book Author
IF MY HAIR HAD A VOICE (Beaming Books) • INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON (Abrams Appleseed) • Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette
danamiroballi.com
Instagram: noshesthebear
#KIDLIT
#CHICAGO
📚KidLit Author
#SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator
👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025)
🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023)
🚌PAISLEY’S BIG FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (Clavis Books, 2027)
picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
#Author of big-hearted stories for little readers. #teacher #parent #chronicillness #IBD #arthritis
https://linktr.ee/alisonmcgauley
writer of picture books and poetry, teacher, traveler, mom of boys and dogs
#12x12PB #scbwi #InkedVoices #50PreciousWords winner '23 HM '24
#amquerying
Author BUTTERNUT series #FunFoodFactsFriday, HerPinkHair HerBrownHair, Illustrator 🎨, Filmmaker 🎥, Educator
💚🦋🐛🌳🐶📕 #kidlit
Picture Book Author Illustrator, THE KING OF BOOKS Feiwel & Friends, SNOW DAY WITH DADDY '28 Christy Ottaviano Books / Creator of #KidLitArtPostcard / Rep’d by Sean McCarthy www.ginaperry.com
Enviro scientist. Kidlit author. linktr.ee/kelliedubaygillis Out now: IF YOU FIND A FAWN art by Wazza Pink from Disney’s Planet Possible & BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE art by Jacob Souva from HarperCollins. Great Lakes lover living near Cleveland. Go Blue!
Teacher⭐️Librarian⭐️Author
https://kelliebeggs.weebly.com/
Founder of #PBandKidJudges writing competition
#SCBWI #kidlit #PB #author
Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | TANGLED TALES OF AN UNDERGROUND MARKET coming Fall 2027 | #SCBWI | she/her
author/illustrator, teacher, painter of journals, maker of creatures and things, she/her
www.pippinmathur.com
#Kidlit author - following the child, seeking rep, Montessorian, #SCBWI #12x12PB #writingcommunity #PBSummit ‘22 #PBRisingStars ‘23 Mentee, can make you a cake 🫘
Teacher. Writer. Lover of words and history. One-time archaeologist. Nonfiction Ninja mentee. SCBWI. 12x12. #amquerying #5thgrade She/her. https://katiemcenaney.com/ and https://www.thelogonauts.com/ for book rec's
I write PBs! | IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM (Holiday House ‘26) | Yeehoo Press Star Award '23 | SCBWI Most Promising Fiction MS 24' | Rep’d by CoCo Freeman
https://www.juliehauswirth.com
Kid lit illustrator and writer, educator, and outdoorsy girl.
Rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social at Essie White Literary
www.annelyso.com
Author of TWO BY TWO, kid lit writer, world traveler, SCBWI Southern Breeze co-coordinator for published members
Picture Book Writer // SCBWI // 12x12PB // Kids’ Choice Honorable Mention 2023 // Write Mentor Scholarship Recipient 2022 & 2023 // PB Rising Stars Mentee 2023 // PitchMe Finalist 2024
She/Her MG and YA Fantasy writer now #amquerying Member of #SCBWI. Wife. Mom to one human and 3 beasts. Average Musician. Newb archer. #WritingCommunity
Same name on IG
#RoundTableMentor mentee 2025
meloniependleton.com
12 x 12 PB Challenge member, 2021 PB Party finalist, unexpected liver transplant recipient, reading teacher, wife and mom, gardener and animal lover! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Picture Book Summit Producer and Event & Podcast Host
12 x 12 Community Manager
Knows a little bit about a whole lot of things.
Would rather be at the beach.
Writer, marketing professional, fmr teacher & teacher trainer, author. M.Ed. TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/2026), https://melissataylor.net https://imaginationsoup.net
Nature & science writer, #kidlit, cemetery commissioner, & huge nerd | ND | she/they | rep'd @Natalie_Lakosil @lookingglasslit
Rhyming PB Author & Poet. WHATEVER COMES TOMORROW; BRAINSTORM!; AFIKOMAN WHERE'D YOU GO?; LITTLE DREIDEL LEARNS TO SPIN, WRITE HERE WRITE NOW, I WILL ALWAYS BE…,FINDING FORGIVENESS (8/5/25), SOME DAYS I’M THE WIND (9/9/25) + more!
RebeccaGardynLevington.c
Children's author, freelance editor/writer. An avid reader, walker, baker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder. Cat lady. Likely drinking tea.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
🍁Kids book publisher!
🌳Books support reforestation!
☀️Growing readers+forests!
National Board certified, Kindergarten teacher, PB writer, parent. Lover of the outdoors and taking care of our beautiful planet.🌎
12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership.
PB writer/illustrator, nature lover, friend to all animals, avid traveler, #12x12PB, #SCBWI
I write books, mostly #kidlit. My next picture book is I'M SORRY FOR THE BAGEL BURPS: A YOM KIPPUR APOLOGY. He/him.
https://www.jacobsagerweinstein.com
AK writer, illustrator, poet, teacher, SCBWI & 12x12 member, & PB enthusiast. AK SCBWI IC. (Opinions my own); PB debut, KAUAI'S CALL (Island Heritage, May 2024)
Children’s writer/illustrator • NOT MY CAT (April 2024) • I’M ALWAYS LOVING YOU (December 2024) • Represented by Claire Morance of Painted Words • www.acamydesigns.com
#kidlit author. FALL: A SEASONS STORY (August 2026, Beach Lane), SPRING: A SEASONS STORY (spring 2028, Beach Lane), WINTER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2023) & SUMMER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2024) from Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster. #12x12PB #SCBWI kelseyegross.com
Children's Book Author
GREAT CARRIER REEF 🌟🌟 LIGHTS OUT;
FIRE ESCAPE 🌟🌟; PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN; WONDERFULLY WILD 🌟 TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT; WHEN OLD BECOMES NEW ('26)
Children's Author
NOURA'S CRESCENT MOON; March 5, 2024
(Candlewick)
HANA'S HAJJ; 2026 (Candlewick)
KS Notable Bk/Lib of Cong Nat'l Book Fest: A VOTE FOR SUSANNA; Lib of Cong "Great Reads/Great Places"; Bk Guild; Cofounder: #SunWriteFun;
THE MUD ANGELS: HOW STUDENTS SAVED THE CITY OF FLORENCE
MEA WINNER: BEST IN CATEGORY-EDUC. MRKTHG
Rep: Liza Fleissig
#Kid-Lit writer | STORY POWER! | MIRI'S MOVING DAY | GHOST WRITER | BREATH BY BREATH | BRAVE IN THE WATER | TREASURE HUNT| #SCBWI #12x12PB #WritersGrotto | www.stephaniewildman.com
author/illustrator of
MAYBE JUST ASK ME! (Coming in 2025 from Beach Lane)
BEULAH HAS A HUNCH! (Beach Lane 2023)
ANNETTE FEELS FREE (Beach Lane 2022)
#ND #Disabled | She/Her, Rep’d by @fairbanklit |NE
https://linktr.ee/KatieMazeika
www.katiemazeika.com
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Constantly curious, chai-drinking award-winning children's book author, poet, and aspiring illustrator.
📕Excited for Eid (LBB, 2024)
📙Friday Fun (LLB, 2024)
📘Aarzu All Around (S&S, 2025)
📗The Camel Library (F&F, 2025)
📕Radiant Ramadan (LBB, 2025)
Authors Beth McMullen and Lisa Schmid iron out the wrinkles in writing, publishing, and everything in between . . . One podcast at a time. https://linktr.ee/writerswithwrinkles
Children’s Author, Former Farm Girl, Boy Mom, THE TRACTOR SQUAD & THE TRACTOR SQUAD SAVES THE DAY (Marble Press ‘24 & ‘25)
Rep’d by Stephanie Hansen at Metamorphosis Literary Agency
#Kidlit writer 📚 #SCBWI member 📚 Teacher librarian in a haunted library 👻 TOO MUCH! AN OVERWHELMING DAY '23 ✨ THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT '24 ✨ MAMIACHI AND ME '25 ✨ UNBREAKABLE: A JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILY IN AN AMERICAN INCARCERATION CAMP '26 ✨
Children's book creators bringing beautiful books into the world this year & beyond! Logo by amazing
@NatashaKhanKazi
www.pbspree.com
American Desi, writer/teacher/mom/podcaster. Passionate about books, play, SWI. #12x12 #SCBWI @PBcrew22 @PBSpree @upliftkidlit @WendiLuluGu @HGLiterary linktr.ee/jyotirajangopal
Lover of sweets, tea, hobby farming, reading, and writing. Award-winning children's author of How To Hatch A Reader (23), How To Hatch A Writer (25), If You Live On A Farm (26), and 3 more unannounced titles to share soon!
