IslandTwinArtists @islandtwinartists.bsky.social Hi! We're Dori and Kate! 💕 Identical twins, kidlit author-illustrators, educators, SCBWI members, bakers, nature lovers, moms of super kids and pets, neurodiverse 💞
✨ Joyfully seeking representation ✨
www.IslandTwinArtists.com
natalie | SPX 2026 @nanelsonart.bsky.social artist and parent of 2, she/her, looking for work/rep in comics, puzzles, games, covers, spots, graphic novel illustration, kidlit picture books
https://www.nanelsonart.com/
Marietta Apollonio @mariettaa.bsky.social Author-illustrator of:
Wombat And The Family Tree
Jack The Library Cat
Traditional and digital illustration
Rep'd by Andrea Colvin Creative Agency
🐴 Equestrian Instructor
🐶 Dog and kid mom
🍰 Dessert lover
📚
https://www.mariettaapollonio.com
Lemur Conservation Network @lemurnetwork.bsky.social We believe lemurs can be saved from extinction if we all work together. Visit our website at lemurconservationnetwork.org to learn about lemurs, celebrate the World Lemur Festival, and find out how you can help.
Amélie • Illustrator @ameliemadi.bsky.social Freelance illustrator who loves nature, fantasy, bookish art and all things magical ✨
⬇️ Portfolio | Shop | And More
ameliemadi.com
⬇️ Commissions OPEN
www.ameliemadi.com/commissions-1
Taiko Endo @taikoendo.bsky.social • author of character-driven love stories
• literary agent assistant @andreabrownlit
• fangirl. friend.📍california
www.taikoendo.com
Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com Argentinian illustrator based in France.
Represented by @jenazantian.bsky.social
💻 https://victoriamaderna.com
✉️ hi@victoriamaderna.com
Prints: https://inprnt.com/gallery/vmaderna
Marie-Laure Couët @marielaurecouet.bsky.social Illustrator & designer 🌈 she/elle
Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI Canada East
FISHING FOR RABBITS, V.E. Publishing Oct 2026
BUTTERFLY SEA, Tielmour Press Dec 2025
https://MarieLaureCouet.myportfolio.com
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #NoAI
Janee Trasler @janeetrasler.bsky.social Children’s book author/illustrator HarperCollins, Scholastic, S&S, FSG, Holiday House
2020 National Cartoonist Society Award Best in Book Illustration
Represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Jenn Bower @jennbower.bsky.social Children's book author-illustrator from NC.
Rep'd by Lane Clarke at Ultra Literary
🌐 www.jennbower.com
Antonieta Muñoz Estrada @mariadrawss.bsky.social Mexican Illustrator • KidLit Art • Published by: Charlesbridge, Beaming Books, Richmond, Edelvives. | ✉️ mariadrawss@outlook.com |
Insta: mariadrawssart
Alina Manolache @alpacasbookshelf.bsky.social I'm Alina and I like alpacas🦙
romanian children's book illustrator
available for new projects
🚫 No AI
Portfolio: alpacasbookshelf.com
Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com Award-winning author of books for kids, teens, and those who are young at heart
She/they
https://katielcarroll.com/
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
Agent: Mona Kanin
'28 OTIS: THE KING OF KATMAI
‘25 MUD TO THE RESCUE! 🐘🦩🦫 🐢
‘24 HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA 👻
SCBWI; WFH | hiker 🥾 | veggie 🌽|
bird&bear lover 🐤🐻 | nature 📷 | 💙
www.tanyakonerman.com
Thorn @thornbulle.eurosky.social pour manger, je fais des dessins, et pour m'amuser aussi. Et j'ai écrit une chouette bd que vous pouvez trouver ici : https://www.exemplaire-editions.fr/librairie/livre/pour-quelques-moutons-de-plus (il y a un tome 2, aussi !)
Au fait : No AI
Evie Richner @evierichner.bsky.social Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
- Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify
- Find our podcast on YouTube and Buzzsprout 📱✨️📚😁❤️🍁
Charline Yutmeyer @charlineyutmeyer.bsky.social #PB and #MG Writer, Educator, #PBParty Finalist 2025, #50PreciousWords Finalist 2024/2025, #PBRisingStars Honorable Mention 2024/2025, #SpringFling Finalist 2025 #Halloweensie Finalist 2025 www.charlineyutmeyer.com #Kidlit #12X12PB #SCBWI #amquerying
Katie McDee @katiemcdee.bsky.social ✨Kidlit Illustrator
Clients include: Scholastic, Highlights, VeggieTales, etc…
✨Represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social at Bookends Literary @bookendsliterary.bsky.social
Website: www.katiemcdee.com
IG: @katiemcdee.art
Terry Minor Art @terryminorart.bsky.social Published children’s book illustrator
TerryMinorArt.com
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Sally Morgridge @smorgridge.bsky.social 
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social I write #PB & #MG with humor, heart & hope 💖
#PBParty host | #SCBWI FL Crit Group Coordinator | #12x12PB | http://linktr.ee/MindyAlyseWeiss | https://mindyalyseweiss.com/
Repped by @joycesweeney.bsky.social
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social Illustrator, character designer, kidLit artist & gameDev art director.
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social @ CMA
Also made the indie puzzle game Puzzle Spy International (out now!) at @agentepsilon.bsky.social
https://mdashow-links.carrd.co/
he / him
Lucy Rogers @luceillustrates.bsky.social Deaf KidLit illustrator 🎨 she/her 🏳️🌈 Repped by ASH Literary.
Clients include Scholastic, Lantana, Harper Collins, Beaming Books, Bloomsbury
rosita colores @rositacolores.bsky.social illustrator ✿ ✿ ✿
🌐 www.rositacolores.com
#childrenbookillustration #kidlitart
Kimberley Adams @kimberleyadams.bsky.social I am an illustrator, artist and coffee professional! This is where I share the highs, the lows, and the ridiculous in-betweens of chasing my spot in the world of illustrated storytelling.
Vicki Gausden @vickigausden.co.uk Illustrator, friend to dogs & fan of the 6B pencil. Love a dress with pockets. Books with Little Tiger, Farshore & HarperCollins.
www.vickigausden.co.uk
Miriam Bos @miriambos.com 🎨 Published illustrator, author & surface pattern designer
🦊 August & Suus - AugustenSuus.nl
📮 Newsletter: https://www.miriambos.com/newsletter
🔗or check my other links: https://temp-unmutglzohxbceeuewtn.jouwweb.site/links
Moira Ratchford @moiraratchford.bsky.social Author-illustrator known for vibrant, quirky characters. www.moiraratchford.com. Interested in kidlit art & licensing. Huge fan of birds, chai & fireflies. Tassy Walden Illustrator Award. Seeking representation. SCBWI. She/her
Lisa @artofliria.com Illustrator,Character designer and Visdev artist!
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https://artofliria.com/welcome
Sarah Whang @anderkaya.bsky.social 🐔 Korean-Canadian Illustrator #KidLit
🐤 WHEN THE AIR SANG out 2025!
🐣 Open for work in publishing
🥚 Repped by @socalledyalife.bsky.social at TLA
Portfolio: https://sunhawhang.com/
WHEN THE AIR SANG: https://www.annickpress.com/Books/W/When-the-Air-Sang
Oak Tree Comics @oaktreecomics.bsky.social An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere.
Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social 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
ET Charles @etcharles.bsky.social Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
#SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/ 
Natasha Rimmington @natasharimmington.bsky.social 🖌Childrens Book Illustrator 🖌 Rep'd by The Bright Agency.
Loves bears, binturongs and all fuzzy animals.
https://www.natasharimmington.com/
Tim Budgen @mrtimdraws.bsky.social Illustrator of over 50+ pb’s & young fiction / Scholastic, Hachette, Puffin, S&S, RH timbudgen36@gmail.com / represented by @plum_agency Instagram - mrtimdraws
Website - timbudgen.com
Bindy James @bindyjames.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator - animals, plants, kids in nature
📍Yugambeh Country/Logan, Aus
🔹 Represented by Astound US
🔸 SCBWI member
Welcome to Whalebone Mansion-Out Fall 2025
bindyjames.com
Loish @loish.bsky.social I’m a digital artist!
Free tutorials & brushes: loish.school
Devyn Douvier 💖💜💙 @devyndouvier.bsky.social 30-something Queer, Neurodivergent, & Overstimulated Mom.
Woman in tech by day, Children's Book Author by night.
BeeSky @lollibeepop.bsky.social 🖍 Illustrator
🌷Represented by the Bright Agency
🐛 AuDHD | Chronically ill
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 | 🚫 AI
🌐 Website: wrencraftt.art
🌷 Insta: @wrencraftt
Tammi Sauer @tammisauer.bsky.social Children’s picture book author repped by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
tammisauer.com
Anne Marie Pace @annemariepace.bsky.social Writer of picture books (VAMPIRINA BALLERINA, MOUSE CALLS, and more), chapter book bios and HF. Reader of almost everything. SCBWI. Authors Guild. Repped by Rachel Orr at Prospect. She/her. Find me at www.annemariepace.com
JMQ Morris | commissions closed @jmqmorris.bsky.social freelance artist | she/they | viet-american | comms closed until fall '26
Commissions: VGen.co/jmqmorris
Print Shop: inprnt.com/gallery/jmqmorris
Portfolio: jmqfolio.carrd.co
Website: jmqmorris.carrd.co
No AI. No NFTs.
Karyn Curtis @karyncurtiswrites.bsky.social Middle Grade, Picture Book writer, former editor, horse girl, #MGWaves
Deanna Hewitt | Animation Design @decomadraws.bsky.social Illustrator and Animation Designer | Syd, Aus
🌟available for work🌟
deannahewittillustration@gmail.com
linktr.ee/decoma_
Liz Nealon @liznealon.bsky.social Literary agent and founder@greatdoglit. News geek. Science freak. Working to become a better photographer. Opinions are my own.
analía cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social ✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social Award-winning Boston-based book designer and art director with ADHD and two cats, currently freelancing and honing my own illustration skills 🎨 Other interests include d&d/ttrpgs, trad fiddling, and learning to figure skate
📚 portfolio: jackieshepherd.com
𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖆 🍃 @unquenchablehobbit.bsky.social I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve 🍄✨
Just tea thank you: unquenchable.substack.com
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social I'm a children's book editor, teacher and workshop presenter, owner of The Purple Crayon website -- www.underdown.org --and part of Kid's Book Revisions Plus: @kbrplus.bsky.social.
I post about #kidlit and other things.
Katherine Choppy Harrison @kidlitkat.bsky.social executive editor of ya, mg and picture books at knopf bfyr, writer of songs and picture books (POWER TOOL ALPHABET & BUT I’M A PUMPKIN!), appreciator of odd curiosities
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, ATmosphere, book blog etc: https://debbieohi.com/links/
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black)
DebbieOhi.com
Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social 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.
Teo Georgiev @teowithdoodles.bsky.social ✏️ Independent Illustrator
🇧🇬 Bulgarian based in Finland 🇫🇮
🎨 Represented by Inkling Illustration Agency
🌐 teogeorgiev.com
✉️ hi@teogeorgiev.com
Folktale Week @folktaleweek.bsky.social The annual art challenge focusing on all things folktales, fairytales, local legends and mythology! We provide 7 prompts each November. 
Kaly Quarles @kalyquarles.bsky.social Illustrator & lettering artist. Kidlit & licensing. Cat mama x 4. She/her.
Rep: Jennifer March Soloway at Starling
Clients: Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, PRH, eeBoo, American Greetings, etc.
📍SLC from Austin, y’all
https://www.kalyquarles.com/links
Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social Nebula-winning & NYT bestselling author of 50+ books for kids & teens plus SFF short fiction for the olds. Library Lion, Into the Wild Magic, Evil Librarian & more. BSFA finalist. VCFA alum. SFWA. Codex. All the links: linktr.ee/michelleknudsen
Elio @eliopictures.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 📚 Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams. 🍏 Associate Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago. 🏡👧 Dad. 💼 www.eliopictures.com
Xi Chen the Illustrator @xichenillust.bsky.social I'm a Chinese Illustrator based in US, focus on children's book illustration, MG/ YA novel art, manga and character design. Former game artist for 8 years.
vgen.co/XiaoFeiArt
🎨 xichenillust.com
✨ vgen.co/XiaoFeiArt
✉️ xichenillust@gmail.com
Lenny Wen @lennywendraws.bsky.social Children's books author-illustrator
🌶️Spicy Spicy Hot! (LBYR)
👻Wolfgang in the Meadow (Clarion)
🐭Pippo's Perfectly Peculiar Days (Clarion)
✏️Sister Scribbles (Viking)
Represented by Christy Ewers @thecatagency.bsky.social
www.lennywen.com/links
Svani Parekh @svaniparekh.bsky.social Writer: TV, books, gaming & audio
Words in/on: Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney, Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee) | Oxford Children’s Books | Ubisoft
Rep: Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency, UK
svaniparekh.com
Christie Megill @christiemegill.bsky.social Kidlit agent at The CAT Agency, writer, story collector. Future ghost.
Newsletter: throughlines.substack.com
DeAndra Hodge | Illustrator and Designer @deandrahodge.bsky.social NAACP Image Award Winning Illustrator
Rep. By Christy T. Ewers @the_cat_agency
📍Washington D.C.
💌 hodgedeandra@gmail.com
www.deandrahodge.com
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 80+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Coming soon: KEEP THE GHOST LIGHT ON
www.katemessner.com
nala khan ✩ @nalakhan.bsky.social ✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ www.nalakhan.com
* Debut PB coming 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
Snailbunny Designs 🐌 @snailbunnydesigns.bsky.social Children's Illustrator and lover of weird cute critters.
Vehemently anti AI.
Portfolio: https://greenthumbarts.wordpress.com/
Fighter of book banning and censorship
For inquires message me here or email at ColbyGreen1984@gmail.com
Chris Houck Nihart @chrishoucknihart.bsky.social writer | middle-grade fiction | history lover | book hoarder #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #middlegrade
Srinidhi Srinivasan | Kidlit Illustrator @srinidhidraws.bsky.social Rep’ed by Aliza Hoover at CAT agency!
Children’s book Illustrator, Sketchbook Scribbler ✏️& Maker of many things 🪡|
🕸️ www.srinidhidraws.com
📧 srinidhis01@gmail.com
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
Sally Walker | Kidlit Illustrator @sallywalkerillo.bsky.social Children's Book Illustrator 📚 I Already Love You, Chase the Moon, Until the Blueberries Grow, Ruby and the Itsy Bitsy Icky Bug. Repped by Jen Rofe
@andreabrownlit.bsky.social
www.sallywalkerillustration.com
Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com Author/illustrator of humorous stories for kids.
https://briankirbystudio.com
SCBWI Ohio: North | #pbparty Finalist ‘24 & ‘25 | #kidlit booster
Represented by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at
@Bradfordagents.bsky.social
Martina Stuhlberger @lamartinaart.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, picture book lover
Clients: HarperCollins, NorthSouth Books/NordSüd, Lantana Publishing, Affirm Press
Rep‘d by the Bright Agency ☀️
martinastuhlberger.com
Dana Marie Miroballi @noshesthebear.bsky.social 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
Catarina Oliveira ✦Illustration✦ @catoliveirastudio.bsky.social ✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 44 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
✦ Book a Portfolio Review ⤵️
catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
Patty Wurster @pattywurster.bsky.social Illustrator • Writer • Regional Advisor #SCBWI New York West/Central Upstate • MFA Indiana U
#kidlit #kidlitart
www.pattywursterstudio.com
Nie @drawnied.bsky.social asian illustrator and writer ✌🏾| I post about art, tv, movies, books, and ANXIETYYY 🥲 | she/her ✨| @drawnied on all socials 🌎
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
Salina Yoon @salinayoon.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator of nearly 200 books. Repped by Andrea Brown Literary Agency (for books) and The Booking Biz (for events/visits). Salinayoon.com
Ruqayyah Daud @borahaze91.bsky.social Senior Editor at LBYR & Requited 📚 please don’t pitch me your book here! ❤️
Nicole Fiorica @nicolefios.bsky.social Editor at S&S/McElderry Books
nicolefiorica.wordpress.com
🖤🩶🤍💜
Natascha @socalledyalife.bsky.social 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
Vicki Lame @thedaysbetween.bsky.social Executive Editor, St. Martin’s Publishing Group / Wednesday Books / Saturday Books. Books about Big Feelings. Opinions Mine. She/her. Not here as often as you think.
Joanna Ho @joannahowrites.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
Erica Lyons @ericalyons.bsky.social Kidlit author. 📚On a Chariot of Fire, LQ📚Mixed-up Mooncakes, Quill Tree
Out next: 📚Lily’s Hong Kong Honey Cake, Apples&Honey Press
Nat. Jewish Book Awards finalist
Sydney Taylor Notable
Ima to 5 + 🐈⬛
🇭🇰
Rep’d by Caryn Wiseman
https://www.erica-lyons.com
Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social NYT best-selling illustrator. Concept art, comics, animation & gardening ✦ Freelance ✦ Cover artist for WOF ✦ Past: Adventure Time, Valve, D&D, BioWare
✦ TikTok - tiktok.com/@joyjoyang
✦ Insta - instagram.com/joyjoyang
✦ AnotherJoyAng@gmail.com
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Kristen C. Strocchia @kcstrocchia.bsky.social 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
1/6 hosts: #KidlitZombieWeek
Patricia Brown @patbrownbooks.bsky.social Retired Bilingual ESL teacher. Writer. Poems in @TheDirigible & Bards anthologies. #Kidlit #PictureBooks #SCBWI #12x12 #50PreciousWords 2024 & 2026 Winner. 📚
Lisa Tolin @lisatolin.bsky.social Editorial Director @ PEN America (formerly Today Show, NBC News, AP) and I write for kids. HOW TO BE A ROCK STAR (2022) CAN YOU IMAGINE? (Atheneum, 2025). #12x12
The Jaded Ari 🔞 @arianandritiana.bsky.social ARian Andritiana
I draw stuff・🌈・Minors do not interact・Do not reupload without permission・No AI
https://linktr.ee/The_Jaded_Ari