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Jeff Sampson |
Jeff Sampson started writing professionally at the tender age of eighteen, working on packaged series fiction—notably, the series Remnants by the great Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant. Several years later, at twenty-two, he had his first book published as part of the Dragonlance series of fantasy novels. He wrote four more novels for that sequence before striking off with the Deviants series from HarperCollins: Vesper, Havoc, and Ravage, forthcoming from HarperCollins Children's Books in winter 2012. {site}
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Jeremy Sewall |
Jeremy Sewall is a Boston area chef who graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America and has worked in kitchens around the globe. He is the owner of Lineage restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as Collaborating Chef at Eastern Standard Kitchen and Drinks, and co-owner and Executive Chef at Island Creek Oyster Bar. His restaurants have garnered accolades from The New York Times, Esquire, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit, among many others. He is currently at work on his first cookbook.{site}
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Joanna Solfrian |
Joanna Solfrian, a MacDowell Fellow, has published poems for adults in journals such as The Southern Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Margie. Recently she won the Wick Poetry Prize out of Kent State Press for her just-published first collection, Visible Heavens. She works with teenagers in Brooklyn and Connecticut and is completing her first novel, a story in verse for teens. |
Sarah Tregay |
Raised without television, Sarah Tregay started writing her own middle grade novels after she had read all of the ones in the library. She later discovered teen books, but never did make it to the adult section. She lives in Eagle, Idaho. Her debut novel in verse, Love and Leftovers, was published in 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins. |
Jacqueline West |
Jacqueline West's fiction and poetry have been published widely in many journals including Chizine, Strange Horizons, and The St. Ann’s Review, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Books of Elsewhere series, which debuted with The Shadows in 2010 and continued with Spellbound in 2011. Jacqueline lives in Minnesota.{site} |
Yvonne Woon |
Yvonne Woon is an MFA student at Columbia University, where she writes adult and teen fiction. Among her many inspirations are zombies, chemistry, boarding school, and fauna. She resides in Manhattan. Her first novel, Dead Beautiful, was published in late 2010 by Disney/Hyperion; the sequel, Life Eternal, is forthcoming. |
Bridget Zinn |
Novelist and pinch-hitting part-time librarian superhero, Bridget Zinn's debut Poison is forthcoming from Disney/Hyperion in 2012. When not writing young adult masterpieces or working on world domination, she spent her idle hours cooking, traveling, trying on new boots and making short films. She passed away in 2011 at the tragically young age of thirty-three. {site} |
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