Heather Bouwman is the author of children’s middle-grade novels A Crack in the Sea and The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap. A recipient of the McKnight fellowship in writing for children, she teaches at the University of St. Thomas.

Marina Budhos is the author of award-winning adult and YA novels and nonfiction, including Watched, Ask Me No Questions, and The Professor of Light. Sugar Changed the World, coauthored with Marc Aronson, was an LA Times Book Award Finalist. She is a professor of English at William Paterson University.

Megan Atwood is an adjunct professor of writing at Hamline University and a teaching artist at The Loft Literary Center. She is a freelance writer and editor with over twenty books for children and young adults published. Previously, she created the YA imprint, Flux, and worked as a literary agent.

Christine Taylor-Butler