Jamie Figueroa @jamiefigueroa.bsky.social Author of the critically acclaimed novel BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER (Catapult, 2021) and MOTHER ISLAND: A DAUGHTER CLAIMS PUERTO RICO (Pantheon, 2024), a memoir-in-essays.
Jessie A @jessieatkin.bsky.social Author, storyteller, writer, reading aficionado, Star Wars enthusiast, Mets devotee, student, sister, twin 🖤🤍💜
OODLES OF NOODLES (📖 out now)
http://www.jessieatkin.com/
Amy Houts @amyhouts.bsky.social Award-winning author of 100+ books
Repped by Stephanie Cardel @LighthouseLiterary
1st place Missouri Writers’ Guild Picture Book Award
God’s Earth is Something to Fight For @BushelandPeckBooks
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SCBWI New Mexico @scbwi-nm.bsky.social New Mexico kid lit writers and illustrators
normacardenas.bsky.social @normacardenas.bsky.social assoc prof of practice | research food, identity, culture, and pedagogy #LasMusas #PBChat #WNDB #RUCCL Mentee #SCBWI #12x12 Ella/She
Marcia Strykowski @marciastrykowski.bsky.social Children's Book Author~MG~PB~SCBWI~Librarian~Art~Music~Ocean www.marciastrykowski.com
Katie Gilstrap @bykatiegilstrap.bsky.social Author of SPACEMANATEE! (Magination Press), PENNY LU PORCUPINE, and FINNEGAN FOX (Nancy Paulsen Books). 📚
Bestie to @attaboyartie.bsky.social 🐕
Friend to all creatures ❤️🐾
@iamclarkgregg.bsky.social @iamclarkgregg.bsky.social 
Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social Official book review journal of the American Library Association.
New ALA Member Benefit! Read digital issues of BOOKLIST READER. Visit www.booklistonline.com/reader-issues to get started!
Sharalyn Edgeberg @sedgeberg.bsky.social I’m a children’s picture book writer. I’m inspired by nature & wildlife. I love to paint with watercolors and draw. @
#SCBWI, #12x12PB, @thewritingbarn.bsky.social
Trisha @indigenouschldr.bsky.social I’m a mama, Keres Language Immersion Montessori guide, ✍🏾, 💃🏽 & more!
Rep’d by Lara Perkins @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
www.kclcmontessori.org
www.indigenouseducators.org
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
Roze Nwoga @rozenwoga.bsky.social Kidlit Author
THE WOMAN UNDER THE EL '28 @ Random House Studio
(Consistently forgetting the second parenthesis /Empath/Multiracial/ Mother of Gremli-- I mean boys... two beautiful boys/ Smithie/ MFA Candidate VCFA/ Rep'd by @Joycekay.bsky.social
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!
Hannah Holt @hannahholt.bsky.social Kidlit author, educator, speaker.
💎The Diamond and the Boy
🐧A Father's Love
🐔A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken
#SCBWI #12x12PB
Sathya Achia Author @sathyaachiawrites.bsky.social ☆Author (YA+PB+MG books)
☆ PRIYA THE JUNGLE DANCER (PB/2024 release)
☆ IN MY HANDS (YA/Now Available)
☆ THE CRANE IN THE MIST
Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia @lizbedia.bsky.social Children's Book Author
BESS THE BARN STAND STRONG (PSK)
ARTHUR WANTS A BALLOON (Trigger) | BALLOONS FOR PAPA (HarperKids)
A DINOSAUR'S DAY Series (DK/PRH)
Repped by Charlotte Wenger, Prospect Agency
https://elizabethgilbertbedia.com
LKBF’s Latinx Storytellers Conference @lkbfstorytellers.bsky.social An annual, in-person gathering of Latinx children and adult book writers and illustrators. 9/12-9/13 SOHO NYC
Ines Ayala (she/her) @byinesayala.bsky.social 🌟#kidlit writer (PB/YA) | agent: @the1whowill | by lines @parents | ‘21-‘25 Communications Manager @latinxkidlitbf @lkbfstorytellers
Melanie Ellsworth @melaniebellsworth.bsky.social Children's book writer, dog walker, dandelion fan. Author of CLARINET & TRUMPET, HIP, HIP...BERET!, BATTLE OF THE BOOKS. She/her. Rep’d: McIntosh & Otis www.melanieellsworth.com 
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
KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social We are KidLit Collective, a collection of creative kidlit authors and illustrators supporting each other since our 2020 debuts and beyond. Art by @nielanderamy
@thekidlitmama.bsky.social @thekidlitmama.bsky.social 
Simon Kids @simonkids.bsky.social Find us at https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/kids!
Kidlit For Los Angeles @kidlitforla.bsky.social Auction by the #kidlit community to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts. Bidding: Jan 20th (9am PST) - Jan 28th (8pm PST).
Amazing items up for bid: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
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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
Bill Prady @billprady.com Co-creator of “The Big Bang Theory” and the upcoming "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe!" College dropout with an honorary doctorate (thanks Wayne State). Married to the amazing @jessicaqueller.bsky.social. Namesake of minor planet 8630 Billprady
Michelle Nott @michnott.bsky.social Bilingual 🇺🇸🇫🇷 Educator & Children’s Book Author, Enchanted Lion Books.
https://linktr.ee/MichelleNott?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Antwan Eady @handle.invalid Author ✍🏽NIGEL AND THE MOON | POEMHOOD (YA Anthology) | THE LAST STAND | THE GATHERING TABLE ‘25 | MICAH’S RISE |🐅🤙🏽 | Agent: Steven Malk |he/him
Angela Montoya @angelamontoya.bsky.social I write books. Sinner’s Isle and A Cruel Thirst are out now.
I cohost a writerly podcast: Of the Publishing Persuasion.
My current obsession are period C-Dramas. Have any recs for me?
Mariel Jungkunz @marielm.bsky.social Mamá bear | Editor | Journalist | DREAMS OF GREEN ('23) | Las Musas Books | Macondista | 🇵🇷 | heysunnyside on IG | RWJF Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing
KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social 📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
Founder: Julie Gribble @juliegribble.bsky.social #kidlit
Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall ‘26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
https://www.isabelcanas.com/
Luvvie @luvvie.bsky.social NYT bestselling author (4x) 📚 Noted speaker. Book coach (Founder of The Book Academy).
Latest book: LITTLE DEFENDS HER NAME (out 5/6/25). Preorder: http://LittleTroublemakerBook.com- H Hilda Eunice Burgos @hildaeburgos.bsky.social author of books for children, dominicana
Eliza Kinkz @elizakinkz.bsky.social Makes Funny Books for kids and their grown-ups 
Gabi 📚 @gabibookworm.bsky.social Queer and BIPOC books. She/her. gabibookworm.wordpress.com
Crystal Maldonado @crystalwrote.bsky.social author + stray piece of glitter writing YA romcoms for fat Latinas 🇵🇷
💚 FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA
📸 NO FILTER AND OTHER LIES
🍁 THE FALL OF WHIT RIVERA
🌙 CAMP SYLVANIA: MOON MADNESS
🗺️ GET REAL, CHLOE TORRES (spring 2025)
💌 Contact: crystalwrote.com
@jamieofelia.bsky.social @jamieofelia.bsky.social 2025 Brigid Erin Flynn Honor-Award winner. 2025 Rhode Island Latino Books Award nominee. Spanish learner. She/her/hers. 🌺
North Texas Teen Book Festival @nttbfest.bsky.social FREE in-person book festival in North Texas celebrating MG/YA literature #NTTBF #NTTBF25
Festival day: March 7, 2026
Educator Day: March 6, 2026
northtexasteenbookfestival.com
Brought to you by the Irving Public Library
Vanessa Montalban @vvmontalban.bsky.social Award-winning author of A TALL DARK TROUBLE, THESE VENGEFUL WISHES, MIDNIGHT'S VICIOUS TOLL (PRH 2027) Contributor in NIGHT OF THE LIVING QUEERS (Wednesday Books) Rep: Madwoman Literary
🇳🇮🇨🇺 She.Her
Marcia Argueta Mickelson @marciamickelson.bsky.social YA author of Pura Belpre Honor Book Where I Belong, The Weight of Everything, and the upcoming 2025 The Writing Room.
Arlene Abundis @arleneabundis.bsky.social Cuban American author of INTO THE MIGHTY SEA with HarperCollins | Rep’d by Sandra Proudman of Gallt & Zacker
https://www.arleneabundis.com
Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social She/Her
Inclusive book influencer focused on
Diversity + Feminism + Fashion
Email ONLY for requests & promo
Lilliam Rivera @lilliamr.bsky.social Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Kaela Rivera | MG Fantasy Author @kaelarivera.bsky.social Award-winning children’s fantasy author of the Cece Rios series and LEGO DREAMZzz novelization. Rep’d by Serene Hakim. Half-Mexican, half-British, all nerd.
linktr.ee/AuthorKaelaRivera
BookPeople @bookpeople.com The largest independent bookstore in Texas 📚 A community bound by books located in the heart of downtown Austin.
Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social West Houston's favorite bookshop. Can we say that? Opinionated service and fantastic author events since 1996.
Diana Rodriguez Wallach, YA Horror Author @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social YA Horror Author of SMALL TOWN MONSTERS & HATCHET GIRLS (out now!), and THE SILENCED (Delacorte Sept. ‘25)
@lasmusasbooks @lasmusasbooks.bsky.social 
Laura K Zimmermann @laurak-pbwriter.bsky.social Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | UNDER THE FOREST FLOOR coming Spring 2028 | #SCBWI | she/her
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris @areynosomorris.bsky.social AUTHOR (Plàtanos Are Love, The Bronx Is My Home, Gloriana Presente & more) 📖 Keynote Speaker & Educator 🎤 Environmentalist ♻ AfroLatinx 🇩🇴🇵🇷
🇨🇦 Multi-genre author - PLS IGNORE MY X ACCT - IT'S BEEN HACKED!! @suzelsonauthor.bsky.social @RateYourStory Judge
HAUNTED POND @OhMGpress ‘25
CALM DOWN COUNTING @DCCED ‘25
HUXLEY THE SPOTTED T-REX '26
Words @OffBeatReads ‘23+4
Poetry and Words @Nancythefurmom
KidsChoiceKidLitWritingContest HM ‘24
2 PB @SmartyPantsMag
suzanneelson.com
🏴🇨🇦
Donna Cangelosi @donnacangelosi.bsky.social KidLit Author. Psychologist. Adventurer. MISTER ROGERS' GIFT OF MUSIC 🎶. LIGHT, LETTERS & LOVE (Sleeping Bear Press, 3/16/27)🌻
#SCBWI #12x12 www.donnacangelosi.com
Michelle Volpe-Kohler @volpekohler.bsky.social Marketing + comms pro, speaker / writing, economics, singing, songwriting / #greatlakes fan / #kidlit fiction, poetry @ https://dirigibleballoon.org / #12x12PB #SCBWI / #amquerying #amwriting / views mine
CLE ➡️ DC ➡️ CLE
https://linktr.ee/volpe.kohler
Michelle Schaub @schaubwrites.bsky.social Author, poet, teacher. A PLACE FOR RAIN (Norton Young Readers), LEAFY LANDMARKS (Sleeping Bear Press); poetry ideas for educators: http://poetryboost.com; repped by @ljamstutz.bsky.social @stormliterary.bsky.social www.michelleschaub.com
The Multilingual Library @multilinglibrary.bsky.social A library of multilingual #picturebooks! 💙📚
Promoting #languages, #cultures, & #multilingual #literacy in #London schools & beyond: @hmking-linguist.bsky.social & Dr Gonzalo Pérez Andrade
How to Create a Multilingual Library of Picture Books t.ly/V8MZO
Valéry Goulet - Illustration & Design @valerydesignwrks.bsky.social French Canadian Designer, Illustrator & Design Instructor located in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
https://www.valerydesignwrks.ca/links
M.V. Pine @madeline-pine.bsky.social Eventually I'll write a book in every genre. Happiest when it snows. 
Kristy Kay @kristysketch.bsky.social Picture Book Author/ Illustrator Seeking Representation
Educator • Maker • Mama 🩷
🎨 Vis Dev @ Nickelodeon, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures Animation
Professor Art Center College of Design
#SCBWI Member
http://www.kristydraws.com
IG @Kristysketch
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
Julie Hoffman, EdD @hoffiecup.bsky.social She/her Educator. Reader. Writer. Poet. Researcher. Vegan. Abolitionist. Radical listener. NCTE. NAACP. Illinois Reading Council. Shattering barriers. Building bridges.
Actually, it’s Dr. Hoffman.
Alessia Gilli @alessiagilli.bsky.social Children's book illustrator and Cat lover
Rep' by Leaf Illustration (leafillustration.it)
alessiagilli.com
Lorrie-Ann Melnick @lorrieannmelnick.bsky.social Educator K-12 | Reading | ESOL | FCPS
Reads/Writes #Kidlit MG | CHB |MYS🔎
#SCBWI Mid Atlantic
Kate&Nate @kateandnate.bsky.social Kate: runner/reader/RA sufferer/too talkative/dyslexic
Nate: author of Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds
Both: kidlit team repped by Sarah Fisk
(CONFESSIONS OF A MANGO, 4/14/26 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
https://kateandnatebooks.com
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
Terri Stefanko @terristefanko.bsky.social whimsical art & illustrations
reminding you that *you are magic*
mfa in visual communication design
adjunct faculty at kent state
find me at art festivals: Light the Wild
terristefanko.com
lightthewild.com
Mengxi Seeley 李梦溪 @mengxiseeley.bsky.social Writer, translator, nerd
Author of SILK AND SENSIBILITY (Shadow Mountain, Sept 2026)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/silk-and-sensibility-mengxi-seeley/085f8873b6bbd151
Bookelicious @bookelicious.bsky.social ❤️ Bookmoji Book-Matching Technology
📚 Curated Online Children's Bookshop
🎒 Virtual Author Visits
🧑🏫 PD Webinars
🛍️ PopUp Shops Fundraisers
Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social Middle school #librarian who has read EVERY fiction book in my #SchoolLibrary. Posts a new #MGLit book review EVERY DAY at http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com, where I've been since 2006. 👍📚
Brooks Benjamin @brooksbenjamin.bsky.social Writer, reader, pizza eater
Librarian the rest of the time
Writes books like MY SEVENTH-GRADE LIFE IN TIGHTS. Rep’d by Triada US
🇵🇸✊🏾🏳️🌈
Jeff Zentner @jeffzentner.bsky.social Nashville. Poet and award-winning author of COLTON GENTRY’S THIRD ACT, SUNRISE NIGHTS, IN THE WILD LIGHT, THE SERPENT KING & more. LOVE, LIKE APPLES forthcoming.
www.jeffzentnerbooks.com
Christina Wald @christinawald.com Kids book illustrator + urban sketcher🔮 Illustration Educator 📚 Sketching Here & Everywhere is out! 🌟 Working on so many stories!
https://linktr.ee/christinawald
Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social Encouraging others to get know science a little better. Kidlit author. Science educator. Rock collector. Stargazer. Nature photographer. Animal buddy. They/She. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette.
www.KatieSlivensky.com
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Tasha Saecker @tsaecker.bsky.social Librarian with an expertise in children's books, YA reads, fantasy and sci fi. Administrator who works towards inclusivity, diversity, engagement and advocacy. Children's & YA book blogger at Waking Brain Cells: https://wakingbraincells.com/
@theliterarybug.bsky.social @theliterarybug.bsky.social Supervising Librarian, Youth Services at The New York Public Library
Julia E. Torres @juliaerin80.bsky.social Teen Services Librarian. Author. Educator. Mama. World Citizen. Aspiring servant leader.
Juliatorreswrites.com
Kacy @kacy-h.bsky.social New Orleans librarian specializing in collection development, comics, and queer lit for youth. 2025 Eisner Judge. Content editor on noflyingnotights.com. GNCRT Treasurer (2024-2026).
Linda Dandrea @ldandrea.bsky.social Librarian. Nerd. 1/3 of @apodoftheirown #LFGM
Liz Gotauco @cosbrarian.bsky.social Author, Librarian, & storyteller. READ MY DEBUT BOOK F*cked Up Fairy Tales from WW Norton! Recovering TikTokker. Rhode Islander. Filipina. Headshot by Brittanny Taylor.
S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social Librarian, gleaner, energy seeker. Love calls us to the things of this world.
The Woodrow (they/them) @woodrow.bsky.social Enby. Library queer. Film fan. Bird nerd. Horror fiend. Board games silly goose. Pug parent. Kitten wrangler.
ENDawson @endawson.bsky.social Queer, tattooed librarian/writer. They/she
Keri @kerers.bsky.social Teen Librarian. Writer of Fanfiction. Degrassi Superfan. YALit. Lots of TV. NJ. Mets. Gotham FC. She/Her.
Bill Ives @billiamives.bsky.social queer children's librarian. i like muppets and mutants (X).
Opinions are my own
Jenn ~ SmalltownBookworm @smalltownbookworm.bsky.social Programming librarian 📚
CR: We Hunt the Flame
📚 in ‘25: 8/50
I work at a library creating programming for adults. Read a fair bit. Thrift a whole lot. Sip some tea. Cuddle my cats. Talk about my library All. The. Time. Constantly learning.
@funnypages.bsky.social @funnypages.bsky.social Terrified of being identified as a librarian by the way she’s dressed.
Dena Davis @denadavisbooks.bsky.social 🌺🇬🇷 Pre-pub #KidLit author, disability rights advocate, SB library board ‘22-‘26, former teacher, optimistic realist #SCBWI #CBA #12X12 #50PreciousWords Winner ‘22 & ‘26, Santa Barbara Writers Conference Scholarship Winner ‘26, she/her 🌺🇬🇷
Jensbooktalk @jensbooktalk.bsky.social Hello, I’m an educator, a book blogger, a lover of all things literacy and #kidlit
12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social 12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership. 
KaitlynLeann7 @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social Kidlit Literary Agent at Bradford Lit, Middle School Math Teacher, PB author Repped by Jackie Kruzie, Living that “eat a cookie while you can” kinda life
Aileen Hower @ahowerliteracy.bsky.social Mom of 3 👾🎮🏐🏀
Millersville University Associate Prof & Grad Coord. of Lang & Literacy, KSLA, ILA, IDA-PA, #nErDCampPA
❤️ 🐈🐈⬛🎾
Edward Underhill @edwardunderhill.bsky.social Trans author, cat guy, plant nerd. 🏳️⚧️🌈 The In-Between Bookstore and In Case You Read This are out now! | up next: The House of Now and Then (2026)
ronnie.🏳️⚧️ @mxronnieriley.com they/them. nonbinary lesbian author. canada.
🌎 JUDE SAVES THE WORLD (2023)
📚 ASKING FOR A FRIEND (2024)
🎀 LOOK PRETTY (sometime in the future)
www.mxronnieriley.com/links
there is nothing more truly artistic than loving people 🌱
Jen F. (she/her) says Black Lives Matter @jdotferg.bsky.social Michif/white, auntie, feminist & accomplice w/ a PhD. Kickass demi. THE SUMMER OF BITTER AND SWEET (2022), THOSE PINK MOUNTAIN NIGHTS (Sept 12, 2023).
https://linktr.ee/JdotFerg
Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social A dude named Jude. They/them.
& author of If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come ☄️
Robbie Couch @robbiecouch.bsky.social Author
Another First Chance | If I See You Again Tomorrow |
Blaine for the Win | The Sky Blues