Authors and Illustrators

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  • Sean Qualls

    Sean Qualls is the illustrator of Powerful Words, a Parents’ Choice Award winner, and The Baby on the Way, praised by Booklist for its ‘intimate artwork.’ A full-time artist, Qualls...
  • Ron Querry

    Ron Querry is an internationally-acclaimed, American author and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Querry served in the Marine Corps during the 1960s and, after his term of service,...
  • Angela Quezada Padron

    Angela Quezada Padron is a Latina author-illustrator who spent her childhood days writing stories and doodling on the garage walls of her New Jersey home and summers visiting family in...
  • Isabel Quintero headshot. Isabel has straight, shoulder-length auburn hair with bangs and wears glasses and a black and white button-up shirt in front of bookshelves.
    Isabel Quintero

    Isabel Quintero is an award-winning writer from the Inland Empire. Her works include: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, Ugly Cat and Pablo and Ugly Cat and Pablo and the Missing...
  • Aamna Qureshi

    Aamna Qureshi is a Muslim Pakistani American who adores words. She is the award-winning author of the YA fantasy novel The Lady or the Lion. She grew up on Long...
  • Aamna Qureshi

    Aamna Qureshi is a Muslim Pakistani American who adores words. She is the award-winning author of the YA fantasy novel The Lady or the Lion. She grew up on Long...
  • Nancy Raines Day

    Nancy Raines Day is known for her clever concept books, many in rhyme. She is the author of Baby’s Firsts, A Kitten’s Year and The Lion’s Whiskers: An Ethiopian Folktale,...
  • José Ramírez

    José Ramírez is an artist, author, elementary school teacher, and illustrator of six children’s books and counting. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his three daughters: Tonantzin, Luna, and...
  • Yasmín Ramírez

    Yasmín Ramírez is a 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Author Fellow as well as a 2020 recipient of the Woody and Gayle Hunt-Aspen Institute Fellowship Award. Her fiction...
  • Michael Ramirez

    Michael Ramírez was born in El Centro, California. He studied graphic design and fine arts at San Diego State University and has worked as an illustrator, graphic designer and Art...
  • Mary Ramírez-Greene

    Mary Ramírez-Greene was born and raised in Calexico, California. She holds an Associate’s Degree in Art from Imperial Valley College, a nursing degree from Maric College of Medical Careers in...
  • LaTisha Redding

    LaTisha Redding makes her picture book debut with Calling the Water Drum. She was inspired to write this story based on the memories of some of her Haitian friends’ accounts...
  • Jennifer Reed

    Jennifer B. Reed lived in Japan for three years and was inspired to write The Falling Flowers after her first spring there. She was in awe of the flowering cherry...
  • Kimberly Reid

    Kimberly Reid is the author of the Langdon Prep young adult mystery series starting with My Own Worst Frenemy, and the Colorado Book Award winning memoir No Place Safe. Most...
  • Rob Reid

    Rob Reid is a librarian and lecturer for the Foundations of Education Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of several books for librarians on how...
  • Dr. Jewell Reinhart Coburn

    Dr. Jewell Reinhart Coburn is the author of many books on storytelling and folklore. Dr. Coburn has lived abroad and studied an array of diverse cultures. She is the recipient...
  • Mira Reisberg

    Mira Reisberg was born in Australia. A painter, graphic designer, and the illustrator of several books for children, Mira has also taught art to both children and adults. She holds...
  • Richela Renkun

    Richela Renkun is a graduate of New York University, where she majored in the performing arts. She brings her film and theater background to her photographic storytelling. Photographing Native American...
  • Antonio Reonegro

    Antonio Reonegro is the co-owner of HAVOC and Media Design, an art and design company. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and later studied at...