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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LIONEL BENDER
Author, editor, and a founding partner of packagers Bender Richardson White, Lionel has thirty years of experience working exclusively with and for book packagers. He started his publishing career working with the pioneers of the book packaging industry: Mitchell Beazley, Dorling Kindersley, Rainbird, and Aladdin Books.

Bender Richardson White is a U.K.-based book packager—also known as creation, development, or fulfillment houses—that produces illustrated nonfiction/information and educational books for many publishers in the United Kingdom and United States, including Boyds Mills Press, Facts on File, Picture Window Books, Heinemann Library, and Weigl Educational Publishers. BRW produces approximately seventy books a year.
Workshop: Outsourcing: Working with Book Packagers and Developers

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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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KENT L. BROWN JR.
Kent is the executive director of the Highlights Foundation, Inc. He is editor in chief emeritus of Highlights for Children, Inc., and the former publisher of Boyds Mills Press, the trade division of Highlights which he co-founded in 1990. He serves Highlights for Children, Inc. as a director. A past president of the Educational Press Association of America, Kent has served on the publications committee of the International Reading Association and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and the National Press Club.
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing

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CAROLYN COMAN
Carolyn Coman’s acclaimed novels for children and young adults include The Big House, Many Stones (National Book Award finalist and a 2001 Michael L. Printz Honor book), Bee and Jacky, What Jamie Saw (National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor book), and Tell Me Everything. She has taught fiction writing at Harvard Extension, Harvard Summer School, and the Chautauqua Institute. For eight years she was a faculty member of the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program, and is currently on the faculty of Hamline University’s new MFA program.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop

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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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LINDSAY BARRETT GEORGE
Lindsay Barrett George was born in the West Indies and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BFA degree from Manhattanville College and an MFA degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in drawing and printmaking. After her studies in the Midwest, Lindsay returned to the East Coast and worked as a fine-art printer in New York City. She later got a job in publishing and worked as a designer in a children’s book department. Lindsay left New York City, had two children, and now spends her time creating children’s books.

Lindsay’s published works include these children’s nature books: Around the Pond: Who’s Been Here?; Around the World: Who’s Been Here?; In the Snow: Who’s Been Here?; and In the Woods: Who’s Been Here? She also coauthored and illustrated Beaver at Long Pond and illustrated Box Turtle at Long Pond.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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TIM GILLNER
As the Boyds Mills Press art director, Tim is directly responsible for the design and art direction of all Boyds Mills Press books. Tim has taught book illustration at Marywood University for the past five years. He is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Society of Illustrators in New York City.
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing

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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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PAULA MORROW
Paula has been a children’s literature specialist for twenty-five years and currently has an independent editing service. Longtime editor of Ladybug and Babybug magazines, she has also edited books by such esteemed children’s authors as Eve Bunting and Barbara Seuling. Paula is a regular columnist for the children’s writers’ magazine Once Upon a Time, weekly book reviewer for newspapers in northern Illinois, and instructor with the Institute of Children’s Literature. She is the author of more than two hundred stories, articles, poems, and activities published in children’s magazines.
Workshop: Writing Fiction for Children's Magazines

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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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KIM RICHARDSON
A founding partner of packagers Bender Richardson White, Kim draws on thirty years of experience in publishing and packaging, especially in the areas of sales, production, and contracts and budgets, and administration of the business.

Bender Richardson White is a U.K.-based book packager—also known as creation, development, or fulfillment houses—that produces illustrated nonfiction/information and educational books for many publishers in the United Kingdom and United States, including Boyds Mills Press, Facts on File, Picture Window Books, Heinemann Library, and Weigl Educational Publishers. BRW produces approximately seventy books a year.
Workshop: Outsourcing: Working with Book Packagers and Developers

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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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LARRY ROSLER
Larry is the editorial director of Boyds Mills Press, where he has broad responsibilities for acquiring manuscripts and developing them for publication. Before coming to Boyds Mills Press, Larry was a manager of New Morning Books and worked for Henry Holt and Company, first in marketing and later in editorial on both adult and juvenile titles.
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing

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SARAH SULLIVAN
Sarah's first two picture books, Root Beer and Banana and Dear Baby: Letters from Your Big Brother (an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award winner), were published by Candlewick in 2005. Her third book, Passing the Music Down, is forthcoming from Candlewick. Her poetry has been published in Cricket magazine. A former lawyer, she is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Grant Award from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. In 2005 she received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College and was the recipient of the Harcourt Post-Graduate Scholarship.
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 four acclaimed novels for young adults: Playing Without the Ball, Wrestling Sturbridge, Shots on Goal, and Restless. 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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CLAY WINTERS
Clay is president of Boyds Mills Press and has been in publishing since 1960. Before coming to Boyds Mills Press, he was president of Putnam/Grosset Books for Young Readers, the children's book group of G.P. Putnam & Sons. Clay has introduced the rudiments of publishing to aspiring writers and has taught a maketing course for entrepreneurs for several different institutions.
Workshop: A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing

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TIM WYNNE-JONES
Tim Wynne-Jones has written two dozen books, including adult novels, picture books, short-story anthologies and young-adult novels. His collection of short stories Some of the Kinder Planets won the Governor General’s Award in Canada as well as the Boston–Globe Horn Book Award. His novel The Maestro won Tim his second Governor General’s Award. Tim’s work has been published in Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan. The Boy in the Burning House won the "Edgar" Award of the Mystery Writers of America. His most recent novel, A Thief in the House of Memory, came out in the spring of 2005, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop

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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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JANE YOLEN
Among Jane Yolen’s picture books are the beloved Owl Moon, which won the 1988 Caldecott Medal; The Emperor and the Kite, a 1968 Caldecott Honor Book; the How Do Dinosaurs series, which are international bestsellers; Wild Wings, which won the National Outdoor Book Award; and many others.
Workshop: Every Word Counts: Writing the Picture Book

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