MARK BALDWIN
Principal author of the Natural History Atlas to the Chautauqua-Allegheny Region, Mark has devoted the past fourteen years to the development of nature education programs for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. As director of education, Mark works with teachers throughout the country to infuse nature studies into their curricula. He is president of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy and vice president of the American Nature Study Society.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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ANDY BOYLES
A lifelong interest in science led Andy to his position as science editor at Highlights for Children and Boyds Mills Press. From dinosaur fossils and rain forests of Madagascar to environments closer to home, Andy’s encounters with the natural world and those who study it are recorded in countless interviews and articles. A member of the National Association of Science Writers, he has received numerous writing and editing awards.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing

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JOY COWLEY
Joy's love for children's literature is "a commitment that borders on obsession." Her novels and picture books regularly receive top honors. Countless children know her classic Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Among her recent titles are The Rusty, Trusty Tractor; Big Moon Tortilla; Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses; Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Starbright and the Dream Eater; Mrs. Goodstory; and Where Horses Run Free. Her book The Silent One received the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year award and has been made into a film shown on the Disney Channel. Hunter, published by Patti Gauch for Philomel, was named New Zealand’s Children's Book of the Year for 2006. In 1990, New Zealand awarded its Commemorative Medal to Joy for her service to Children's Literature. In 1992, she received the Order of the British Empire, which acknowledges her distinguished service to the arts and sciences.
Workshop: Writing from the Heart: A Guided Writers' Retreat

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JUANITA HAVILL
Juanita Havill is the author of sixteen children's books, including Jamaica's Find, a Reading Rainbow Review Book, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner; Jamaica Tag-Along, an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"; and Sato and the Elephants, an ALA Notable in the Field of Social Studies, which has been translated into five South African languages.

She is also the editor of Booklove: Creating Good Books for Children in an Age that Values Neither.
Workshop: Picture Books A-Z

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PETER JACOBI
Peter Jacobi is a professor emeritus and visiting Riley professor at Indiana University’s School of Journalism, and a former professor and associate dean of the Medill Scholl of Journalism at Northwestern University. He serves as music columnist and critic for the Bloomington Herald-Times as well as columnist on writing techniques for the professional newsletter, Editors Only. His schedule still includes, annually, a number of workshops on writing, editing, presentation skills, and handling the media. His journalistic background spreads across the print and broadcast fields: as arts critic and writer for various newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News and The Christian Science Monitor; as editor of and freelancer for magazines; as newswriter, assignment editor, and on-air reporter for radio and television, including ABC and NBC News. His two guidebooks, The Magazine Article: How to Think It, Plan It, and Write It and Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature, are standard journalistic references.
Workshop: Writing Memorable Nonfiction: Pleasures and Possibilities, Problems and Practice

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PAUL KOWALCZYK
Paul is a longtime forester with deep firsthand knowledge of the Pennsylvania woods. As manager of the forest surrounding Boyds Mills House, he directs efforts to maintain the forest as a healthy habitat for wildlife as well as a source of timber.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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BARBARA KRASNER
More than sixty of Barbara’s articles have appeared in Babaganewz, Calliope, Cobblestone, Footsteps, and Odyssey. In 2005, she served as one of the judges in the SCBWI Magazine Writing Merit Awards. In January 2006, she received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. She is currently at work on a biography and two historical novels for young people.
Workshop: Nonfiction Magazine Writing

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SOLON MORSE
Solon is an ecologist, illustrator, and Web-programmer on the staff of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. His primary interests lie in community ecology, conservation, and education. He has participated in a number of large-scale research projects in the Midwest, which examined the impacts of forest management on migratory birds and other wildlife. Currently he teaches several courses for the Peterson Institute and—with John Wiessinger—is developing the Electronic Naturalist, an online nature education resource.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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SUSAN PEARSON
Susan began her career in publishing in the early 1970s and has held positions as editor in chief of Carolrhoda Books, editor in chief of Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, and is currently editor at large at Chronicle Books. Over the years she has worked with hundreds of picture-book creators. She is also the author of more than twenty books for children, and the anthologist of The Drowsy Hours: Poems for Bedtime (Harper 2002). The first collection of her own verse, Squeal and Squawk: Barnyard Talk, was published by Marshall Cavendish.
Workshop: Picture Books A-Z

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MARILETA ROBINSON
Marileta is a senior editor at Highlights for Children, where she edits fiction for young readers in addition to writing each month’s installment of the popular feature "TheTimbertoes." A free-lance writer before coming to Highlights, Marileta has published two picture books and several magazine stories. Her background includes teaching in the Peace Corps and on the Navajo reservation, as well as instructing for the Institute of Children’s Literature. She holds a master’s degree in bilingual education and is a regular speaker at SCBWI conferences around the country.
Workshop: The Hero's Journey: Bringing the Power of Mythic Structure to Your Writing
Workshop: Writing Fiction for Children's Magazines
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing
Workshop: Room to Create

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PHYLLIS ROOT
Phyllis has published thirty books, starting with Moon Tiger in 1985. In 1997 Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble, an original tale about a female trickster, won the Minnesota Picture Book text award. What Baby Wants was cited as a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year in 1998. Big Momma Makes the World won the 2003 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for picture books. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing for Children program of Vermont College, Union Institute and University.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (June)

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JANE RESH THOMAS
Jane Resh Thomas is the author of fifteen published and contracted books, including picture books, short fiction, middle-grade fiction, and biography. The Comeback Dog, Saying Good-Bye to Grandma, Courage at Indian Deep, and Lights on the River have won, among other honors, a Parent's Choice Award, Notable Books and Best of the Best listing by the ALA, and an award from the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. Her most recent books are The Counterfeit Princess and Blind Mountain, an adventure story. After eight and a half years as a faculty member of the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program, she has now joined the faculty of Hamline University’s new MFA program.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (June)

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RICH WALLACE
Rich is the author of a number of acclaimed novels for young adults, including Playing Without the Ball, Wrestling Sturbridge, Shots on Goal, Restless, and One Good Punch. His most recent novels are Dishes and Perpetual Check. He has also authored a short-story collection called Losing Is Not an Option and a series of sports novels for middle-grade readers called Winning Season. His columns, profiles, and other features have been published in Highlights, Track and Field News, Runner's World, and other publications. Rich is a former senior editor at Highlights for Children.
Workshop: Writing about Sports
Workshop: Writing for Young Adults

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SANDRA NEIL WALLACE
Sandra has been a writer and TV host for travel magazines, ESPN, Fox Sports, and Canadian Television News. She is a ghost writer for a Running Press imprint and has a monthly lifestyle column in Connections magazine. Her sports articles have appeared in MH-18 (a teen version of Men’s Health), and Highlights published her story “Sandra on Sports,” a profile of her career as a female sportscaster.
Workshop: Writing about Sports

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ED WESELY
Ed is director of the Butterfly Barn Nature Center, which overlooks the Delaware River, where he rears and releases about 400 monarch butterflies each summer. Ed’s environmental education background provides the foundation for his many outreach activities, including numerous publications, lectures, and guided field tours. He is currently developing a natural history Web site.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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CAROLYN P. YODER
Carolyn is the senior editor of history for Highlights for Children and has written numerous articles on research and writing history for children. She spent a decade serving as the award-winning editor in chief of Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People; Calliope; Faces; and Odyssey, which led to her position as assistant publisher of Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., overseeing development of its book division.

Carolyn is currently editor of Calkins Creek Books—the history and historical fiction imprint of Boyds Mills Press, publisher of her book George Washington: The Writer. She also reviews juvenile history books for the Civil War Book Review and has been a writer and editor for the New Jersey Historical Society.
Workshop: Carolyn Yoder Alumni Writers' Retreat (Spring)
Workshop: Carolyn Yoder Alumni Writers' Retreat (Fall)

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