✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
Author of picture books, easy readers, and MORE! Reader. Gardener. Hiker. Curious about EVERYTHING!
Freelance Editor | Creative Consultant 💫
Formerly Senior Editor at Chronicle Books 📚
✨Helping children’s book writers and illustrators take their work to the next level—and get published!✨
www.naomikirsten.com
Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Designer, Dude, Cleveland Sports Fan, NYC resident.
Graphic designer, teacher, writer, since forever
She/Her
Children’s book Art Director and designer.
Website: whitlpdesign.com
Mom to a NB 8 year old and two black cats. Passionate about books, workers rights, equity, safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals, anti-racism, and picture book art.
Art Director on MTG, Illustrator, and Fairy trying her best. Co-host of the Painted in Color podcast. Etsy: http://labillustration.etsy.com . NO A/I. Views are my own.
Creative Director at Figma. Former baby.
Former VP at VW Group · 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Design Leader, Advisor, Speaker · Product Experience Exec at Fortune 500 Companies and Billion Dollar Startups · Ex Nokia, SAP, …
👉 bremer.co · linkedin.com/in/WolfgangBremer
I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
AD at Columbia Magazine. Opinions are my own. he/him
Director of UX Design - Education, Fresco & Fonts at Adobe. Sketchbook junkie and stealer of pens. Late night game designer of the tabletop rpg, WanderSquares.com! He/Him - 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally - #BLM
she/her
(artists: please don't send your portfolios to my personal email)
www.jwahlgren.com
Type designer, fonts, etc — founder of typeverything.com & artist andreirobu.com
Milanese designer gone PNW. Creative director, type & typography educator. Researcher at Nebiolo History Project. Wayfinding, EGD, exhibit design. Politics. Cats. ENG/ITA
Illustration, comics, fonts, book design, crosswords. Art Director at Large, Tundra Books. https://johnmartz.com/
Elli (they/them) and Anna (she/her). Creators of Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate and Flocking Hell, a deeply strategic roguelite.
Flocking Hell demo + wishlist now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236280/Flocking_Hell/
🐏😈
About 📚, 📚+🎨, 🧣 & 🏀
book designer + art direction @ Scholastic Canada
Instagram @yvonnelamdesign
• He/Him
• Cuban/Chinese Pride
• Creator of ELDRITCH AUTOMATA
• VFX Compositor | TTRPG Designer | Award Nominated Producer.
Creative Director at Powerhouse Animation
and otherwise semi-functional human being // Never skip the titles // Opinions are my own.
Senior graphics editor at NatGeo. Before that AD at The Atlantic. Work: https://www.jasontreat.com/ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. -Zappa
🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
https://linktr.ee/jshea_art
artist, day dreamer, associate art director with Tor Publishing Group. mostly likes and reposts. opinions my own. lesleyworrell.com 🇻🇨🇹🇹💙🌊
- #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨
-Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️
www.gehrisch-arts.com
-Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨
www.booklingmedia.com
Author, Art Director at Eerdmans, Illustrator, & Michigander
LOVE IS POWERFUL—Available Now
MEET ME IN YOUR HEART, 2026
ONWARD: 16 Climate Stories..., 2026
OUR MICHIGAN PARKS, 2027
heatherdeanbrewer.com
instagram.com/hdeanbrewer/
bracketpublishing.com
- Design Systems / Type Design
- Cyclist / Mountain Biker
- Aspiring Generative Artist
www.winstonstruye.com
“Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes
18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. 🇬🇧
Writing Horror and making Party Games.
Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream
ReadGraves.com
Game Developer/Electromagician/Cat Master 😹
Epic Megagrant 2022 Recipient
BAFTAConnect 22/23/24
IGDA Foundation Next-Gen Leader 2022
Currently working on Rogue Eclipse!
Wishlist Here!
https://bit.ly/4bRLumD
Views expressed here are my own 👍
Rock and Roll Sociologist
Freelance Illustrator
Designer @ The Washington Post
michellekondrich.com
Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
💚HAROLD THE ICEBERG IS NOT A SUPER FOOD💚 is now available wherever your favorite books are sold.
N. Irish - Book designer (London) - Children's Fiction - Usborne. Insta - willsteeledesign
Keen runner and occasional photographer.
www.willsteele.co.uk
AD for Legends of Avantris + freelance illustrator in TTRPG
🚫No AI&NFT🚫
🎨Art director, illustrator, concept artist
📩Work inquiries: http://helmigh.art (@) http://gmail.com
🇳🇱 Dutch
⚔️Wields swords
Bi 🏳️🌈, ❤️Wife of @TitusLunter
https://helmighs.carrd.co/
Animation, art & design
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
nicolasmenard.com
Books, art, poetry, science, nature… no politics or nastiness generally, please.
[she/her] Opinions my own - https://linktr.ee/mariannemartin - Art Director, concept artist/illustrator with a penchant for spooks. Horror, beauty, escapism! No AI /No NFT
♂ Producer+VA @BlackfieldEnt.bsky.social🔴 Site Lead @pressspacetojump.bsky.social🟢 Showrunner @pressplaytowatch.bsky.social▶️ Co-Lead @HimboHunter.bsky.social💘
Lead @pitfalls.bsky.social🎲 @coasterkisser.bsky.social🎢
RadiantG.com • he/him
twitch.tv/RadiantG
✨ Designing comics professionally ✨
Art Director @ Inklore | Prev: Scholastic Graphix, Silver Sprocket, Skybound
not taking this too seriously ✨ she/her/they 🇵🇭
carinadraws.com
Creative Director at Wild Sheep Studio.
Previously: Game Director at Guerrilla
Killzone | Rigs | Horizon Zero Dawn | Maestro | Adorable Adventures
A substack: https://steventerheide.substack.com/
Creative Director @disneyhyperiondesign , potter, Wife, Mom, Sister, Feminist, Friend, Ally, List maker, Headstrong Club.
Artist, mostly traditional. Imaginative realism, magical fantasy. Illustrator and sometimes Art Director. San Francisco 💕 julialundman.com/shop
Patreon.com/julialundman
🚫No AI. 🚫No Nazis.
🍁 https://linktr.ee/julialundman
🍁 Website: julialundman.com
bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event TBA
More DVpit info: https://dvpit.carrd.co/
sign up for our updates newsletter: https://dvpit.substack.com/subscribe?params=%5Bobject%20Object%5D
Welcome to Post Wave Children's Books. Publishing with creativity, originality, and passion - for children all over the world.
https://postwavepublishing.com/
Pitch event for 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and their stories. Next event is August 15, 2025!
Hosted by: @nicolemtota @mjbowman @ntlovich @lucywrites and @andreamariana89
✏️ Illustrator 〰️ Autistic 🌻
📓 Represented by Sally Kim at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Welcome to SCBWI Canada West on Bluesky social! Let's connect together to the world of children's literature.
Children’s book writer | Rep’d by Sally M. Kim of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Children’s book author + illustrator. VCFA WCYA, MACambridge School of Art. She/her
autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/vanessagillings
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Author, indie bookseller, freelance consultant. Camp Director of Queer Kidlit Camp (Memorial Day Weekend 2025) 🏳️🌈
New Mexico kid lit writers and illustrators
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
Human-environment geographer, environmental educator, children's book author represented at ABLA 🪰🍄🪲🐌
agent at The Friedrich Agency | pronounced marine (like marine biology) 🐳 | she/her/hers
https://linktr.ee/marintakikawa
Literary Agent
Writer
Chaos Coordinator
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
The School & Library Marketing department of Penguin Young Readers! Book news, educator and library resources, good vibes, and more!
Check out FREE resources at https://www.penguinclassroom.com/
Privacy Policy | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/privacy/
Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
Instagram: vleebooks
vivianwmlee.com
Yes! My mother named me this!
Author of Eleanor & Park, Slow Dance and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Writer of She-Hulk and Runaways. My next book is called Cherry Baby, and it comes out in April 🍒
•#1 NYT Bestselling Author
• Founder of Bittersweet Books
• Student Union 5/5
• Vera Stein is Fine 7/21
• DUMPLIN’👠 is on Netflix
• Let Them Stare with JVN out now 🦖
• Books from cradle to grave!🍼➡️🪦
#1 NYT bestseller & National Book Award finalist.
Everything, Everything, The Sun is also a Star, Instructions for Dancing & One of Our Kind
Co-publisher: Joy Revolution Books
Rep: Jodi Reamer (Writers House)
Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
✒️ New York Times bestselling & award-winning author: THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, FORESHADOW YA, and AN ARROW TO THE MOON. Here for collective liberation. https://exrpan.substack.com/welcome
A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
Children's book editor living in Brooklyn. Books, cats, food, travel, running, stuff. Check out my podcast with Grace Lin, Book Friends Forever!
2022 Newbery Honor, APALA Award, & Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner. NYT Best Books 2021. PB & MG author. http://linktr.ee/AndreaYWang Rep: @agentemurph.bsky.social emliterary.com
Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. President of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her)
blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽
Prettyokmaggie.com
I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
Executive Editor @ Random House Books for Young Readers. 408 in the land of 212. It's pronounced meow with an L. Opinions are my own. She/her. Banner art by Diobelle Cerna.
Children's book illustrator and author in the UK. Urbansketcher. Creating colourful worlds & characters
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
✏️ https://nicolaschofield.com/newsletter/
💌 Hello@nicolaschofield.com
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
Senior Literary Agent at The Tobias Literary Agency. Account for #MSWL only. Query me at https://querytracker.net/query/natascha
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/natascha
Website: www.nataschamorris.com
OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Five. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Executive Editor, Sourcebooks. She/her
Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and Aevitas Kids & Illustration. Member AALA. Knitter. Gamer. Cats and dogs. She/Her. Views expressed here are my own. Header photo is my backyard in Maine.
Senior literary agent at Writers House, LLC. I believe in books. Always learning. Opinions are my own. She/Her.
open to queries
Profile image by Monica Arnaldo
part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @ Trellis Literary Management
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. OES ⭐️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
she/her. executive editor @ aladdin/s&s.
Editor at S&S/McElderry Books
nicolefiorica.wordpress.com
🖤🩶🤍💜
Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum/Scarlett Press (Simon & Schuster) • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
https://featherflores.com/
she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾
🩷💜💙
Writes science books for kids. Cares deeply about literacy and science education. Nonfiction advocate. She/her https://melissa-stewart.com
⭐ Kim is a 🇨🇦 New York Times best-selling children's book illustrator. She is also the author of the picture book Boxitects! You can find more of her work at kimillustration.com .
Children's and YA Book Lovers' Awards. Honoring diverse voices and inclusive stories for kids and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
Writer, marketing professional, fmr teacher & teacher trainer, author. M.Ed. TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/2026), https://melissataylor.net https://imaginationsoup.net
Editor at Nancy Paulsen Books 🐧 Southern transplant 🍵 Matcha enthusiast
