Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social 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
Amy Leskowski @amyleskowski.bsky.social 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
David Daily @daviddaily.bsky.social Writer (PB, MG) | rep’d by Elena Giovinazzo
Entrepreneur, salty snack aficionado, outdoor & travel enthusiast, grumpy runner, skilled in cookery, made in Minneapolis | MN
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Kailei Pew @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
THE MONSTER ABOVE THE BED
KID-VENTORS
I SEE COLOR
Repped by Emily Forney of Bookends Lit
kaileipewbooks.com
@nicolethelibrarian.bsky.social @nicolethelibrarian.bsky.social 
Erin Siska @erinsiska.bsky.social Reader, picture book author/illustrator, graphic novelist, lawyer, mama, dog person, mental health advocate, good listener. #kidlit #kidlitart
(she/her) Portfolio at www.erinsiska.com.
Jenn Burke @readbooker.bsky.social 💙K-8 librarian, mother of 2 strong woman. Power tool user, birder, crafter, pit bull mom, #GirlScout member for life. Reads the instructions first before watching how-to videos. She/her. No DMs. #progressive #democrat #prochoice
Lori Knutsen: Kidlit Writer, Teacher and Photographer @lknutsenkidlit.bsky.social I write #PB #YA to uplift, inspire, and entertain kids.❤️ Boy mom. Teacher. Dreamer. #kidlitfirefly #ND 💫📝🌈
Seeking Rep https://loriknutsen.com
#50Preciouswords ‘26‘25 HM
#springflingkidlit ‘25 Winner
#Halloweensie ‘25 HM
#SCBWI
#12X12
#PBRS Col
Tiffanie Leung Abbott @tleungabbott.bsky.social It’s “Learn” with a “G.”
• Mixed-race Chinese American author
• Rep: Michelle Jackson
• 2026 #pbparty Finalist
• 2025 #pbparty HM
• 2025 #roundtablementor
• #scbwi #12x12challenge
Hannah Lorenzo @hannahlorenzobooks.bsky.social ESL Teacher. Mom. Travel. Dance. Strawberry ice cream. #Kidlit Author, repped by @KaitlynLeann17 SCBWI 12x12 http://HannahLorenzoBooks.com
Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social Author of MADE FOR YOU, out now, THE NEW YEAR'S PARTY (Nov 2025) and BEACH BODIES (PRH UK, summer 2025)/ A KILLER GETAWAY (Sourcebooks) under pen name Sienna Sharpe.
Literary Agent at Storm Literary.
Tenacious.
Michelle S. Kennedy - Children's Picture Book Writer and Poet @michelleskennedy.bsky.social https://www.michelleskennedy.com/
https://x.com/MichelleSKenned
#PBWriter. Wife & mom. Loves Jesus. #SCBWI Southern Breeze Co-Asst. Regional Advisor, #12x12, #PBParty Finalist '24, '23, & '22 and #50PreciousWords HM '26, 25 and '23.
Josie Liming Gawlowski @jgawlowski.bsky.social #kidlit #PB writer: #scbwi: #pbchat mentee: #storystorm: #12x12pb: #PBParty HM 2021 & 2024: horchata drinker, former photojournalist, farmer's daughter, based in Seattle
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
My PB debut: BINNA’S DALGONA (2025)
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Aida Salazar @aidawrites.bsky.social Award-winning Xicana author, translator, artivist, ally, mother. Out now: ULTRAVIOLET and WHEN WATER FLOWS. Up next: WHEN SUN RISES. Decolonize & Free 🇵🇸
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow @authorjamilah.bsky.social 🔸Children’s book author of very Black, very Muslim stories
🔸2-Time Muslim Bookstagram Winner
🔸Honors: Golden Kite, Walter Award, Irma Black
🔸SLA Information Award
🔸A bit political. A lot human.
🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip
🔸 www.JamilahTheWriter.com
Pat Zietlow Miller (she/her) @patzmiller.bsky.social Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Stephanie Seales @blackbookbruja.bsky.social Children's book-writing, woods-wandering, water-loving magical elf
Sometimes here, sometimes not
MY DADDY IS A COWBOY (Abrams, 2024)
More books to come!
gael abary @gaelabary.bsky.social Illustrator represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House
gaelabary.com
Kam Asanyi (they/them) 🏳️🌈 ♿️ @kamasanyi.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤
#kidlit author
Stonewall Award Honoree
MARLEY’S PRIDE (Barefoot Books)
OUR WORLD USA (Barefoot Books)
MADINA'S BIG, FABULOUS, WIN (Disney Hyperion '27)
BELLY GROWLS (Henry Holt '27)
🇭🇹 |♿️|🐈⬛+🍄 ❤️
Rep’d by James McGowan
Lillie Pardo @lilliepardo.bsky.social Picture Book Writer ✏️
3rd Grade Teacher 🍎
Filipino American 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
#PBRisingStars mentee ‘23
#SCBWI work-in-progress award winner ‘24
#12x12 scholarship winner ‘25
#PBParty Finalist ‘25
#Kidlit
Seeking representation
www.lilliepardo.com
Fake Kristin @krosenberg.bsky.social Librarian, nerd, wife, mom
@loc-dlibrarian.bsky.social @loc-dlibrarian.bsky.social HS Librarian. Book Nerd. Foster mom for DFW Labrador Retrievers. Mom of grown kids.
Heather (Davidson) Maneiro @hldavids.bsky.social School librarian and tech evangelist
2024 Cybils Speculative Fiction Committee
Tara Lukaart @tlukaart.bsky.social Teacher Librarian in Michigan for DK-6th grade readers.
Lee Murray @leemurraywriter.bsky.social ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
Bernadette Roche @must-luv-books.bsky.social K-6 librarian
https://linktr.ee/must.luv.books
School Library Journal @slj.com School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
Zeena M. Pliska @zeenamar.bsky.social Kindergarten teacher by day. Children’s book author by night. Activist always. she/her/hers
Rep'd by Abigail Samoun of Red Fox Literary
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Mrs. O @mrsoteachesk.bsky.social Kindergarten teacher in rural Minnesota. 💙
Loves Books 📚 Coffee ☕️
Boy Mom
Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social Children’s Book Author.
Librarian (Middle/High School & Public).
Mom. Dog mom. Human.
The U.P. of Michigan. boniashburn.com
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
s.e.cottrill @secottrill.bsky.social Picture book Author/ Illustrator. Graphic Designer/Art Director by day. #SCBWI #12x12PB #mightykidlit #KidLit #authorillustrator www.secottrill.com
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.
Anne Link @salukianne.bsky.social K-5 Librarian and K-12 District Coordinator for WGSD, Missouri; Doing the work to fight for the Freedom to Read! 
Elizabeth Law @elawreads.bsky.social #Kidlit and YA Lit are my vocation and I won't stop preaching. Currently Editor-at-Large at Holiday House Bks, and a freelance editor and speaker. 40 years in the biz, yowsah! https://www.elawreads.com/ I'm also a showqueen trapped in a woman's body.
Peter Brown! @peterbrownstudio.com I write and illustrate children’s books, including The Wild Robot series. Learn more at www.peterbrownstudio.com
M.V. Pine @madeline-pine.bsky.social Eventually I'll write a book in every genre. Happiest when it snows. 
Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education
University of San Francisco
(views posted here are my own)
Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury
www.monishabajaj.net
Pronouns: she/her/वह
Rekha Salin @rekhasalin.bsky.social Children Author+Illustrator
Seeking Representation
Clients- Puffin Books UK, OUP, GRP
RA #scbwi INTL centre region
Www.rekhasalin.com
Newsletter- https://rekhasalin.substack.com/
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Sona Charaipotra @sonesone2.bsky.social Author Symptoms of a Heartbreak, How Maya Got Fierce, Tiny Pretty Things, The Rumor Game | Screenwriter | Journalist | Senior Editor, Scholastic | traveler @ishqinabackpack | #adhd creative | #Chaitime | mama 
Nidhi Chanani @nidhiart.bsky.social Bestselling author (!!)
📚PASHMINA, SUPER BOBA CAFÉ, JUKEBOX, STRONG, SHARK PRINCESS, I WILL BE FIERCE and more
Rep Jodi Reamer at Writers House
Avani Dwivedi @avanidwivedi.bsky.social 🎨 picture book artist
📍Mumbai / NYC
🌷Repped by Painted Words
Sayantani DasGupta @sayantani.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of children’s and YA books, Health Humanities Academic https://linktr.ee/sayantanidasgupta?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e40bc45d-a2e4-4923-9b4a-2674c3c19b21
Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social (they/them) Artist. Writer.
✊🏽🍉 • No a/i
💚 Folio: https://bydhiyanah.carrd.co/
🌸 Bookings: https://forms.gle/xbdSuuQRwwfAMEmP6
🎨 Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydhiyanah/
🍯 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bydhiyanah
Jayashree Megan @jayashree-megan.bsky.social 🇮🇳🇸🇪Desi+Swedish💖💜💙 (she/her)
18yrs as a bookseller (Borders, B&N, Red Ballon) #booksellerJaya • anti-AI🚫
📚 Reader/writer of fantasy, romance, & horror. Painter of animals & goddesses.
📍Minneapolis MN
Vaishali K Grover @vaishalikgrover.bsky.social My jams:
Inclusive Storytelling
Sustainability & nature
Photography
*etc.*
www.vaishalikgrover.com
(she/her: BIPOC: queer)
Vinayak Varma @eyefry.bsky.social Writer-illustrator, BSFA and CWSS finalist, lapsed magazine editor and craft beer branding guy, design prof., music nerd, cat wrangler, tragic anti-hero.
#createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design
www.mixtape.in
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
HarperKids @harperkids.bsky.social We're here to help parents, teachers, and librarians discover great reads for kids, from picture books to middle grade!
Jarrett J. Krosoczka @studiojjk.bsky.social 💬Graphic Novelist
📙 Lunch Lady • Hey, Kiddo
📕 Star Wars • Crayola • Marvel
▶️ Process & Creative Career Tips
🍎 Classroom Resources
Amber McBride @ambsmcbride.bsky.social 🥀Award Winning Author/Folklorist/ Hoodoo/ Poet/Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner, National Book Award finalist.🏳️🌈
🥀Cozy (Virginia) Country Living
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
@tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social 
Liz Garton Scanlon @lizgardensalad.bsky.social Poems, picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels.
All the world is all of us. 🌏♥️ She/Her
www.LizGartonScanlon.com
Missouri Library Association @molibraries.bsky.social Non-profit, member-driven association of libraries throughout Missouri.
KY Association of School Librarians @kasl.us Kentucky Association of School Librarians https://www.kasl.us/
Los Angeles Public Library @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social Free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.
Seattle Public Library @spl.org Meet Me at the Library! 📚✨ You visited us 3.4 million times last year 🚶
We bring people, information and ideas together to enrich lives and build community 📚
Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social Sharing the Japanese American experience. Look for programs near you at janm.org/OnTheGo
Florence Migga @florencemigga.bsky.social Author. THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK (Out now!); THE FORTUNE OF IMMY NAKATUDDE (Putnam, Summer 2027).
Add THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236003438-the-summer-scrapbook
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
Maria Gianferrari (she/her) @gianferrari-m.bsky.social Creature & nature lover
Bird nerd 🐦
Wordsmith
#Kidlit Fiction & #STEM PBs:
Latest: Just One Oak 🐿 & Puffins!
Horn Book honoree for Fungi Grow 🍄
Obsessed with auroras
Website: https://mariagianferrari.com/
Vasilia Graboski @vgraboski.bsky.social Infant Mental Health Therapist, Children’s Book Writer, Treat Maker, Tea drinker
Erin Cleary @clearywriter.bsky.social Writer of picture books and middle grade, singer, dog lover, ravenous reader, kitchen dweller, hunter of cozy spaces.
Rep'd by Sheila Fernley at Storm Literary.
Kelly Conroy @kellyconroy.bsky.social Children's Writer, Rhymer, Reader
https://linktr.ee/KellyConroy
Rep'd by Sarah Stephens | SCBWI | 12x12
You Are My Everything - Tiger Tales '24
I See You In The Stars - Familius '26
*Mostly on Instagram
Emily Cadwalader @emilycadwalader.bsky.social MG & YA Fantasy Writer . she/her . same handle in various places
Kristen C. Strocchia @kcstrocchia.bsky.social Children’s poet & writer • Speaker • Mom of 7
Kidlit Honors: Ann Whitford Paul Awards 2024 & #PBParty 2025
Writes lyrical/quirky PB & speculative upper MG/YA
SCBWI East PA | M.Ed Curriculum & Instruction | kcstrocchia.com
1 of 6 hosts: #KidlitZombieWeek
Scott Thomson Author @scotttauthor.bsky.social I like reading things. And writing things. Mainly for children. Debut PB out 2025.
Writer, Editor, Creator of Tigran, Alien Cat Expert @megdendlerwriter.bsky.social Writer of books for all ages. Editor and proofreader of wildly varying novels. I will straighten your crown without telling anyone it was askew.
Jane Heitman Healy @janemhealy7916.bsky.social Writer, poet, kidlit, SCBWI, librarian, teacher
Kellie Beggs @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social Teacher⭐️Librarian⭐️Author
No longer active here
Updates only
Victoria Gilbert @vgilbertauthor.bsky.social Author of traditional and cozy mysteries -- the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series, the Hunter and Clewe Mystery series, the Campus Sleuth mystery series and the Booklover's B&B mystery series. Has also published SF/F
Laura Sims @laurasimswriter.bsky.social Novelist, Poet, Librarian. Author of HOW CAN I HELP YOU and LOOKER. 
Hal Schrieve - writer and librarian ze/hir @halschrieve.bsky.social Writer, cartoonist, librarian. Halschrieve.com for writer-y info, Halschrieve.itch.io for comics, @ howlmarin on insta for art. Buy and read Fawn’s Blood, my vampire novel
Susan Brownrigg @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social Lancashire lass. Children's book author. Wrong Tracks (2025) Gracie Fairshaw mysteries (2020-2024) and Kintana and the Captain's Curse (2020)
susanbrownrigg.com 
Sara Kelly Johns @skjohns.bsky.social School Librarian, adjunct professor at Syracuse University iSchool, co-author of ELEVATING THE SCHOOL LIBRARY: POSITIVE PERCEPTIONS THROUGH BRANDING BEHAVIOR and STRENGTHENING LIBRARY ECOSYSTEMS: COLLABORATE FOR ADVOCACY AND IMPACT (both ALA, 2024)
Lisa Krok @readonthebeach.bsky.social Author Novels in Verse for Teens (Bloomsbury LU), library manager, reviewer for SLJ & Booklist, moderator, and presenter. Swiftie. Reese-aholic. My TBR will one day collapse and this is how I will die. Personal acct my opinions.
Karen B. McCoy @karenbmccoy.bsky.social #ADHD librarian. Author #mglit #mystery THE ETIQUETTE OF VOLES (Artemesia Publishing/Kinkajou 06.10.25 and audio 03.31.26). Order links: https://www.karenbmccoy.com/book IG: karenmccoybooks FB: https://www.facebook.com/karenmccoybooks
Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com 🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books
Queen Captain of Space Station 1
Yukiko Stranger-Galey @ystrangergaley.bsky.social 📚 Kidlit writer 🐋 Museum curator
🌟 @iaminprint.bsky.social PB winner 24
🌟 @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social PB mentee 25 🌟 @wordisdiversity.bsky.social finalist 22+24 📝 Rep @joycekay.bsky.social
🖥️ yukikostrangergaley.com
Sarah Allen @sarahallen.bsky.social Award-winning author: WHAT STARS ARE MADE OF, BREATHING UNDERWATER, THE NIGHTMARE HOUSE, MONSTER TREE. Making silly sketches & songs & snuzzling cats. Better at Substack (sarahallen.substack.com)
Andrew Auseon @andrewauseon.bsky.social MG/YA Author. Video Game Designer.
SPELLBINDERS: OVERPOWERED now available!
spellbinderbooks.com
andrewauseon.com
Represented by Aevitas Creative Management.
Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social Books, movies, navel-gazing. librarians against fascism. Rad fatty. she/her
Courtney Pentland @livluvlibrary.bsky.social High school librarian; Adjunct faculty @UNOITLSchoolLib; 2023-24 @aasl president; All views here are my own; she/her
Sylvie Shaffer @sylvieshaffer.bsky.social School Librarianship and Kidlit, mostly. 🏳️🌈🦄🤸🏻♀️✡️📚
E. Gall @gallbrary.bsky.social librarian & critic specializing in youth literature & services
Laura Given @liblaura5.bsky.social K-8 Library Media Specialist, collector of hobbies and the number 5 — MYRA Star of the North Picture Book Award Selection Chair myrahome.org — she/her
Banner Art Credit: Amy Rice Art
ErikaMVictor @erikamvictor.bsky.social Grade 5 international school teacher who loves reading, writing, all kinds of inquiry. I am trying to know better to do better. 
Michelle Simpson @msimpson.bsky.social Elementary School Librarian 
Mary Ann Cappiello @macappiello.bsky.social PORTRAITS OF ELEANOR (Holiday House, 2027), narrative YA bio of medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Rep’d by Eve Adler, Red Fox Literary Agency
Reading with Purpose (Teachers College Press, 2024),Text Sets in Action (2021), and more.
Gwyneth Jones @gwynethjones.bsky.social The Daring Librarian. Ed Tech Educator. Fangirl of reading, coastal action, & cozy socks. Ridiculously Humble. 
Tiff Whitehead @librariantiff.bsky.social School librarian, reader, traveler 📚🗺️🚐
Laura DElia @ldelia.bsky.social Elementary Librarian. 
Corinne Altham @mrsaltham.bsky.social Teacher, Mainer. One of the mad ones. Stand up comedian for children. Librarian/techie K-4 in a 💯 district. M.Ed., MLIS. Union.