Gael_Me ☆ Illustrator @gaelme.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Represented by Pyro Represents
linktr.ee/adaabigael
Anisi Baigude | illustrator @anisibaigude.bsky.social 🖍️ Mongolian American KidLit Illustrator
📖 BORN NAUGHTY, Anne Schwartz Books
📖 ODI’S LIBRARY DAY, SDPL
📮 Rep'd by Analía Cabello at ABLA
📍San Diego, CA
linktr.ee/anisibaigude
Rachel Curtis @catinspats.bsky.social Children's Illustrator Seeking Representation
Bear Edwards @bearedwards.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, designer.
National Cartoonists Society
SCBWI Midsouth.
#seekingrepresentation
BearEdwards.ink
Clary Huang @claryillustration.bsky.social 🎨Children’s book illustrator
✨The Illustration Department & SCBWI member
🔔Available for PBs, board books, and editorial projects
🚀Rep'd by Tracy Marchini Literary
Portfolio: claryillustration.com
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🐌Snailing It! (Sourcebooks, Spring 2027)
Gustavo Rinaldi @gusrinaldi.bsky.social Illustrator from São Paulo - Brazil (he/him) - 🚫 AI
Seeking representation
Website: gustavorinaldi.net
Instagram: @gus.rinaldi
#illustration #art #kidlitart #fantasyart
Tori Kate @torikateillo.bsky.social canadian kidlit illustrator ✏️ & full time mama
i love joyful, silly and heartwarming characters ✨
rep’d by Analía Cabello @ ABLA @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
portfolio: www.torikateillustration.com
email: torikcole@gmail.com
Rachel Foo @speakyst.bsky.social Children’s books illustrator from Malaysia. Represented by Sol Salinas @solsticeillo.bsky.social of Astound.us
https://linktr.ee/speakyst
Christopher Thornock @thornockstudios.bsky.social Illustrator, educator and artist living in the mountain west. Agent - Lori Steel Steelworks Literary - thornockstudios.com Insta - thornockstudios
Martin Stanev @martinstanev.bsky.social Illustrator & Author from Bulgaria, living in the Lake District, UK
🌐 martinstanev.com
📚 Rep’d by InklingIllustration.com
✉️ hello.martinstanev@gmail.com
menal khan ✩ @menalkhan.bsky.social ✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ www.menalkhan.com
* Debut PB coming 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
Lele Saa @lelesaa.com (she/her)
Illustrator | Writer | Designer | H(ai)ter
📍Cambridge, UK.
Inspired by joy, curiosity & creativity.
Represented by Sophie Sheumaker at BookEnds Literary Agency.
© Lele Saa 2023-26
www.lelesaa.com
Paula @paulajbecker.bsky.social Illustrator/cartoonist/writer. Clients include, Random House, Highlights, Owlkids, KidCanPress, Scholastic, etc.
www.paulajbecker.com
www.instagram.com/paulajbecker
Cris Badalona @crisbadalona.bsky.social Stories for children that heal adults too❤️🩹
🌱Growing as a kidlit illustrator. Join my journal! ✌🏻
💌 hola@crisbadalona.art
www.crisbadalona.art
Elsa Martins 🖍️ illustrator @somebodyelsa.bsky.social Storyteller | Maker of happy things
Represented by Tracy Marchini
somebodyelsa.com
Jeffrey Lime @jeffreylime.bsky.social Writing psychological short fiction with a twist in the tale. Comments on my work more than welcome 🐻❄️
Heegyum Kim @heegyum-kim.bsky.social Picture book author-illustrator. www.mrfox.nyc
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
Lauren McPheters @laurenmcpheters.bsky.social Illustrator & Author
Hollins MFA Children’s Lit. & Illustration
Seeking representation ⭐️
www.laurenmcpheters.com
Charlotte Gunnufson @charlottegunnufson.bsky.social Children's Book Author
Hard Hat Hank and Eight, Nine, Tengineers #DisneyBooks
Dream Submarine @CandlewickPress.bsky.social
School Spirits 2026 @SimonKids.bsky.social
Halloween Hustle, rep'd by @SamBFarkas.bsky.social
Kirsten Pendreigh @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social Picture Book Author & Poet. https://www.kirstenpendreigh.com/
WHEN A TREE FALLS, PW ⭐️; WHAT FISH ARE SAYING, SLJ ⭐️; MAYBE A WHALE, Horn Book⭐️ Fanfare Book; JLG, CCBC⭐️; LUNA'S GREEN PET (Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Next: CAMPING IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social I really like drawing silly animals and flowers!
Digital artist from Sweden.
Check out my art!! both #art and #sketchbook stuff! :)
Shop and other links: https://shop.byjessicaelena.com/pages/links
Jeff Larkin @jefflarkinart.bsky.social 
Ibarra V. Gomez @ibarravgomez.bsky.social Author of kids’ horror fiction and a voracious reader, watcher, and player of stories! Contact: ivg@eml.cc
Tammy Lee Bradley 📸 @tammyleebradley.bsky.social 📸 FujifilmX. Former Olympus Visionary, Samsung Ambassador, Pentaxian 645D & more
CCSU - Accounting BS; UCSD - Children's Book Writing & Illustration; UCLA - Writers' Program
www.visitthesouth.us
https://tammy-lee-bradley.pixels.com/
Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/benstagram81
new dad, memoirist, essayist, occasional journalist, birder, herper, artist's spouse, baker of cinnamon rolls, already in-recovery from whatever this is
Doug DeRabbie @derabbie.bsky.social Advocacy / Communications
Reader 📚
Avid Sports Fan #LeafsForever #NYGiants
Coffee Drinker ☕️
Superman Geek
Mental Health
Toronto 🇨🇦
10 ROWS A DAY @10rowsaday.bsky.social Whether you are a beginner or an experienced knitter, take your knitting to the next level with plenty of in-depth knitting tutorials, courses, patterns and classes.
Free Course www.10rowsaday.com/free-knitting-course
YouTube www.youtube.com/@10rowsaday
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
CBIG Illustrators @cbignyc.bsky.social CBIG, Children’s Book Illustrators Group, is a NYC based group of illustrators and author-illustrators who create work for children’s publishing.
Website: https://www.cbig-nyc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cbignyc/
@politicaldude.bsky.social @politicaldude.bsky.social Tory Hater, Reform Hater, Trump hater and Labour Supporter, Democrat supporter. #FBPE #Socialist #VoteBlue #BlewCrew #VoteLabour
Ronna Mandel @ronnawriter.bsky.social #kidlit #neurodivergentsupporter #12x12PBChallenge, fmr European expat, ❤️ cats, poodles, purple + chocolate, SCBWI-LA Mingle coord. PB debut fall ‘27. Rep’d by Marisa Cleveland. goodreadswithronna.com + RonnaMandel.com @pbcreativecrew.bsky.social
Hannah Chung @hannahchung.com Writing and illustrating children's books!
✎ THE MOST PERFECT PERSIMMON
✎ BREAD DAYS
Rep: Rebecca Sherman at Writers House
hannahchung.com/books
Megan Taraszkiewicz @megantaraszkiewicz.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Prefers puns intended.
@onestargone on Insta
Megantwrites.com for illustration & onestargone.com for art
Skelton.fail @skeltonfail.bsky.social Skelton, a skeleton trying to enjoy his life; he’s very bad at it and makes questionable choices. Original character comic art and funnies (PG-13). Copyright (C) 2023-2026 skelton.fail
TK Read @tkreadauthor.bsky.social Hi folks! I’m a practicing attorney and award winning author, currently querying an #A #Romance #ChristmasRomance & a #NA #Romantasy www.tkread.com Proud member #scbwi #AtlantaWritersClub
Kelsey E. Gross @kelseyegross.bsky.social #kidlit author. FALL: A SEASONS STORY (August 2026, Beach Lane), SPRING: A SEASONS STORY (spring 2028, Beach Lane), WINTER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2023) & SUMMER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2024) from Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster. #12x12PB #SCBWI kelseyegross.com
Gabi Snyder @gabisnyder.bsky.social Author of TWO DOGS ON A TRIKE, LISTEN, COUNT ON US, TODAY, and LOOK | Rep: Natalie Lakosil, @lookingglasslit.bsky.social | she/her 
F U L L P E R M ✨🚀 @fullperm.com Hello Avatar ! 🖖👽
Let's build the REAL #Metaverse with #Secondlife ! ✨🏝️
https://fullperm.com
Hey Miss @onguhla.bsky.social She’s, her, they. NYC middle school art teacher. I make a lot of typos.
🖌️Artwork in profile is by Morris Louis.
JB Sallée @jbsallee.bsky.social Ocean & Climate scientist. Lead author @IPCC_CH AR6. Chercheur au CNRS, Paris
@amandataub.bsky.social @amandataub.bsky.social 
Ocho @ocho.bsky.social Nerd // Gaming / Retro & MMOs / Twitch // Star Trek / LotR / Astrophysics // Cats / Musicals / Fun Chips / Sporadic game blogger / Excel / Screenshots // Dad to a genius son w/ ASD // ❤️
https://linktr.ee/BigMikeyOcho
(he/him) cis
Bsky#249948
Maall @maallik.bsky.social Gamer. Eccentric. Probably a monster?
DM's will be eaten.
@jean-c-gorman.bsky.social @jean-c-gorman.bsky.social 
Jen Freer Harris @jenfreer.bsky.social My life essentials: cats, gardening, coffee, the balm of nature, genealogy, ice cream, and kindness.
Erin Varley @erinvarley.bsky.social Fifth grade math teacher. Voracious reader. Broadway wannabe.
Mark Scott Ricketts @msricketts.bsky.social Illustrator. Writer. Creator of graphic novels: Nowheresville. Whiskey Dickel, Int'l Cowgirl. Lazarus Jack. Night Trippers.
https://www.mscottricketts.com
https://yucktravelmagazine.substack.com
https://markscottricketts.substack.com
Vasilia Graboski @vgraboski.bsky.social Infant Mental Health Therapist, Children’s Book Writer, Treat Maker, Tea drinker
MarissaP @nolpost.bsky.social Special Education Advocate
#specialeducation #edusky
Philly via PSU via NEPA +AvalonNJ
#Philly #PSU #NEPA
WILL 100% say "We told you so"
#toldYouSo #MAGAsuckers
Hoping to be part of deprogramming the trump MAGA Cult
#MakeAmericaGullibleAgain
@inklingsnyarns.bsky.social @inklingsnyarns.bsky.social I used to call myself a #craftathomemom, but now I guess I work (and I LOVE my job).
Art teacher. Crafter. Sewist. Mommy.
Ruth @ruthbyralen.bsky.social Art Educator 💚
Froebel's gifts nerd 🟥 #froebelforart
Fancy award winner 🏅🏅🏅
Kimberlee Gard @kimberleegard.bsky.social Collector and connector of words.
Award-winning children’s author.
Hobby farmer, tea lover, bibliophile 🩵
Dyslexia and ADHD are my super powers.
Rep’d by Sheila Fernley at Storm Literary Agency
https://kimberleegard.com/
Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social Happily married. I do not respond to DM’s
Raised in NJ, now So. Sound Wa, USA.
Enjoy good music, art & photos
Amateur photographer
Photos: https://500px.com/harold_jr
https://pixelfed.social/Haroldjr2084
Wagner College, NY (BS) & Seattle Univ (MBA)
@electrictree38.bsky.social @electrictree38.bsky.social 
Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social K-3 Visual Arts Teacher
Toronto 🇨🇦
Year 18
Meghan Lands @meghanlands.bsky.social She/Her - Comics, Storyboards, Kids illustration. Good head of hair.
Prev. WB, Nickelodeon, Penguinworks, Annick Press
https://linktr.ee/meghanlands
#sketchbook thread
Sandcastle Kat @sandcastlekat.bsky.social A cat trying to survive in a world without adequate public health protections.
Make Art That Sells @makeartthatsells.bsky.social Outstanding online art + illustration courses from top art agent + illustrator Lilla Rogers. 30k+ students in over 100 countries. #MakeArtThatSells
Online art courses to boost your portfolio 👉 https://makeartthatsells.com/online-art-courses/
Rachel G. Payne (she/they) @rpayne.bsky.social Early literacy librarian, SLJ columnist, Horn Book board book reviewer, play advocate, and debut author of Let's Rumble from Rise x Penguin Workshop (July 2025). Rep: Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Lit.
She/they
RachelGPayne.com
Polina Gortman 🎨 | Illustrator @polinagortman.bsky.social Picture book maker • Reader & star gazer
✨ SEEKING REPRESENTATION ✨
📚SPRING IS FOR STRAWBERRIES ’23
📚WIDE OPEN SPACES ‘26
📍PNW🌲
www.gortmanillustration.com
Lisa Billa @lisasbilla.bsky.social writer of picture books and poetry, teacher, traveler, mom of boys and dogs
#12x12PB #scbwi #InkedVoices #50PreciousWords winner '23 HM '24
#amquerying 
Dagoprod @dagoprod.bsky.social [ https://linktr.ee/dagoprod ]
#art #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #fanart #posterart #digitalart #artwork
Annie Parsons @anniedrawsthings.bsky.social Christian, author, illustrator, teacher, lifelong student. Member #SCBWI
My picture book “Stone Soup” is available now!
linktr.ee/anniedrawsthings
Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com Graphic novelist, full time illustrator,
Global U.S. Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI. (Is having six cats too many? I didn’t think so.)
https://artistjerrybennett.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/artistjerrybennett
Ellie Thorel @elthorel.bsky.social Retired nurse, artist, aspiring author/illustrator, looking for representation, book lover (you can never have too many books), nature lover.
best of the internet @handle.invalid the funniest memes on BlueSky 🦋
Left Elon’s crazy app for Bluer Skies 🙂
Perspectalog @markobalazic.bsky.social Designers: reilustrate.com
eComm owners: https://www.productai.photo/
Museums: http://wondercut.io
Fashion: http://relum.ai
Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social Writer currently working on a MG novel. Mom to a ND son and a trans daughter. Ally. Lover of horror, LGBTQIA2+, MG, YA and romance books. She/her 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️♾️
Find me at:
Instagram: @pineolisa
Goodreads: Lisa Pineo (user 62350303)
StoryGraph: @lpineo
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
Alice Catkin | Kidlit illustrator @alicecatkin.bsky.social ✨daydreamer based in Leeds 🇬🇧
✏️I draw the stories I’ve always wanted to read
💌 alice@alicecatkin.com
❤️#art #illustrator #illustrationartist
Geartopia @meganaroon.bsky.social Geartopia—World Building, where art, dreams, and gears come to life, proving that creativity is the ultimate masterpiece!
All original artwork.
#Artist #KidLitIllustrator #WorldBuilding
Geartopia.art
Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social We write, illustrate and support Canadian, and we’re releasing our seventh year of picture books in 2026. Follow us for news about 🇨🇦 PBs, blogs by 🇨🇦 PB creators and more, eh!
Website: https://picturebookseh.weebly.com
Alison McGauley @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social #Author of big-hearted stories for little readers. #teacher #parent #chronicillness #IBD #arthritis
https://linktr.ee/alisonmcgauley
Sue Fliess @suefliess.bsky.social Children’s book author of over 50 books, school presenter, freelance writer, decent cook. Travels whenever possible. Rep’d by Unter Agency. www.suefliess.com
The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social Welcome to #SaturdayMorning & Syndicated #Cartoons! Indie #podcast hosted by preservationist Christopher Jay. Travel back to the #80s every other Saturday! (Ally 🏳️🌈 - He/Him)
Find the show here: Linktr.ee/SatMornPod (Apple/Spotify links)
New Art Teachers @kerrypower.bsky.social art and media education multidisciplinary learning sustainability new materialism animal rights #ArtTeachers #MediaTeachers views my own
Monika Baum @monbaum.bsky.social Kidlitart illustrator, accountant & analyst, linguist. I love watercolor, cakes, the Alps, Scotland, squirrels, Star Trek, and happy accidents. 🇨🇭&🇩🇪.📍Switzerland.
www.monbaum.com
Liz Lazar (she/her) @lizlazarlit.bsky.social #PB writer, former reading teacher, boy & dog mama, 🎶 & 🌎 lover. Highlights/Boyds Mills Scholarship Winner 2026, #12x12 Scholarship Winner 2025 & 2024, #PBParty HM 2024, #PBRisingStars Mentee 2023, #SCBWI #KidLit #CBA #LyricalLanguageLab ✨Seeking Rep
Kat Jack @katmacapplejack.bsky.social Artist. Educator. StL Metro East.
Mom to a kid and a cat. Slightly Woo.
💙💙💙 + 💖💜💙
J.W. Gant @johnwgant.bsky.social Writer. Father. Unwilling tech enthusiast. Veteran. Hiker of mountains. Black belt. ER medic in a prior life. I sometimes think I know what is going on, but probably don’t. In New England until the end.
Yes. It is a coup.
#WritingCommunity
🏳️🌈 Jaqi 🩷🧡💛💚🩵💜 @jaqimoon.bsky.social LGBTQIA+ Family, Stay-At-home Creative, Maker, & Bookworm.
🌸 She/ Her
Lee Ballard @leeballardbooks.bsky.social Novice Writer of Chapter Book Series, Experienced Grandmother, Almost Graduate of SNHU, Gladly Retired, Shivering Chicago Resident, Extreme Novice Website Developer (mine only), Longtime lover of life!
www.LeeBallardBooks.com
@aumentato.bsky.social @aumentato.bsky.social Jack of all trades, master at ?
👩🏻🍳🧶📚
@scowtz.bsky.social @scowtz.bsky.social 
Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social Kidlit Author (Rep: Amy Nielsen) + Trauma Therapist | THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MARCHING (2029)| Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event
Annelouise Mahoney @annelouisemahoney.bsky.social #kidlit author/illus. Stories, community, snacks!
LITTLE PURPLE TRACTOR illustrated. sourcebooks ‘24 .
JULIUS AND MACY: A VERY BRAVE NIGHT Two Lions ‘21
www.AnnelouiseMahoney.com
SCBWI Los Angeles
Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy.bsky.social PhD from University of Glasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
Kathryn Rammell @kathrynrammell.bsky.social Author Illustrator of humorous w/ 💖 PBs!
RORY THE REMARKABLE DRAGON out now!
BANDAGE BUDDIES Spring ‘24
Rep’d Christie Megill at The CAT Agency 🐈⬛
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
hey_jilly @heyjilly.bsky.social 🏠 homebody
🎨 amateur illustrator
🐶🐱 pet mom
IG: @jillysketches
Becky Gehrisch - kidlit picture books @gehrisch-arts.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
Melissa Gardner @artgardner.bsky.social illustrator/storyteller, psychotherapist, mom and maker of magic! 🏳️🌈& ND
www.melissagardnerart.com
Rep’d by @sandraproudman.bsky.social
@galltzacker.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrator
Tricia Torrible @ttorrible.bsky.social #PB writer and poet, TORRIBLE PUNS: A COLLECTION OF PUNNY POEMS (Gnome Road Publishing, Spring '25), PBChat Mentee, #SCBWI, #12x12pb, #picturebooks, #poetry, #kidlit @pbbuds.bsky.social
triciatorrible.com
torriblepuns.com
T. L. McBeth @tlmcbeth.bsky.social Children's book author & illustrator.
Repped by Stephen Barr @ Writers House.
www.TLMcBeth.com
www.linktr.ee/tlmcbeth
Chris @cpark.bsky.social Mixed Korean-American Illustrator / Author / Dad
www.chrisdpark.com
Rep’d: @essiewhite.bsky.social @stormliterary.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