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

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SARAH C. CAMPBELL
Sarah is a writer, photographer, and workshop presenter. She is the author of Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award honor book for 2008. Sarah’s writing and photographs have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Highlights for Children, and Exceptional Parent. She has been writer-in-residence at Davis Magnet School in Jackson, Mississippi, for three years.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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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 (June)

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PATRICIA LEE GAUCH
Patti is vice president and editor at large of Philomel Books as well as a respected author in her own right. She holds a doctorate in English literature, and has taught children's literature on the college level and reviewed for The New York Times. Patti has edited three Caldecott books, including Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and John Schoenherr, and So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George and David Small. She has worked with many well-known authors, including Jane Yolen, Andrew Clements, and Brian Jacques.

Patti has written thirty-nine books for young readers, among them the highly acclaimed Thunder at Gettysburg and This Time, Tempe Wick? Her most recent title, Tanya and the Red Shoes, part of the celebrated Tanya ballet series, was published in spring 2002.
Workshop: Heart of the Novel: A Two-Part Workshop

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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 the popular "Who's Been Here?" books from Greenwillow: 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? Her most recent books include The Secret; Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse; and Alfred Digs. Lindsay has also coauthored and illustrated Beaver at Long Pond and illustrated Box Turtle at Long Pond.
Workshop: It's All About Character
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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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
Workshop: Life in the Spotlight: Author Opportunities After Publication

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LIZA KETCHUM
Liza writes novels for middle-grade and young-adult readers. Many of her books are historical, including Orphan Journey Home, The Gold Rush, West Against the Wind, and Venturesome Creatures: Eight Women of the West. Her latest historical novel, Where the Great Hawk Flies, won the Julia Ward Howe/Boston Author’s Club Young Readers’ Award for 2006, and the Massachusetts Book Award for Children’s Literature, also for 2006. Liza’s middle-grade novels include The Ghost of Lost Island, Dancing on the Table, and Allergic to My Family. Liza is a faculty member in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University. She has also taught writing at the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College and at Emerson College.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop for Historical Fiction

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ELLEN LEVINE
Ellen Levine has written twenty books for young people, including Catch a Tiger by the Toe, a novel that takes place during the McCarthy period; Freedom’s Children, a nonfiction book about the civil rights movement; Journal of Jedediah Barstow, an Oregon Trail adventure; and A Fence Away from Freedom, about the Japanese-American internment. Darkness Over Denmark, the story of the Danish Resistance and the rescue of the Jews during World War II, won the Trudi Birger Prize (Jerusalem International Book Fair), Golden Kite Award, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Jane Addams Honor Book, and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Ellen’s picture book, Henry’s Freedom Box, based on a true story of the Underground Railroad, was a 2008 Caldecott Honor book. Many of her books, both fiction and nonfiction, deal with issues of social justice and equality.

Ellen is a lapsed lawyer, has worked in television and film, is a woodcarver, and has been on the faculty at Vermont College's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop for Historical Fiction

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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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DONNA JO NAPOLI
Donna Jo writes for preschoolers through high-schoolers, in a variety of genres from contemporary humor to gothic psychodrama. Her award-winning books include her picture book, Albert, and her novels Daughter of Venice, Breath, Beast, North, Stones in Water, and The King of Mulberry Street. And, since this bio is for writers, she wants you to know she has made every mistake in the book and invented some. It took her fourteen long years of rejection letters to sell anything. So take courage—you never know when the phone will ring.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (June)

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LORI RIES
Lori wrote her first book—Super Sam—at the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at Chautauqua. Published by Charlesbridge, Super Sam soon led to other books, and Lori was on her way as a children’s writer. Lori’s books have been recognized as outstanding by Horn Book, Parenting Magazine, Nick Jr. Family Magazine, and Bank Street College. Her chapter book Aggie and Ben, Three Stories (Charlesbridge) was a 2006/2007 Oregon Book Award Finalist. Her most recent books include Punk Wig (Boyds Mills Press) and Good Dog, Aggie (due from Charlesbridge in 2009). Lori has given many school presentations and has taught workshops.

Find out more about Lori at www.loriries.net.
Workshop: Writing from the Heart: A Guided Writers' Retreat

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STEPHEN ROXBURGH
Stephen has been involved with children’s books and publishing for more than thirty-five years, first as an academic, then as senior vice president and publisher, Books for Young Readers, at Farrar, Straus and Giroux; and as the president and publisher of Front Street Books, a small, independent press he founded on April 1, 1994. In 2004 Front Street was acquired by Boyds Mills Press, where Stephen was publisher until September 2008.

Stephen has worked with such authors and artists as Felicia Bond, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Brock Cole, Carolyn Coman, Roald Dahl, Donna Diamond, Madeleine L’Engle, Martine Leavitt, Patricia McCormick, An Na, Marilyn Nelson, Adam Rapp, Alvin Schwartz, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Garth Williams, and Margot Zemach.

Stephen lectures and publishes widely on children's literature and children's publishing. He is on the faculty of the Highlights Foundation. For many years he was on the faculty of the Radcliffe Publishing Program, the Stanford Publishing Program, and the Columbia Publishing Program.
Workshop: Classic Models for Writers and Artists
Workshop: Editing for Writers
Workshop: Editing for Writers: Picture Books
Workshop: Editing for Writers: Novels
Workshop: Editing for Writers: Novels (September)

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MONIKA SCHROEDER
Monika is the elementary-school librarian at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. She has lived and worked in India for six years and taught grade four at American Schools in Santiago, Chile, and Muscat, Oman, before coming to India. Monika reviews books for the School Library Journal and for Booklist and is a contributor to the American Library Association’s Book Links magazine. Her first book, The Dog in the Wood, a historical fiction novel, will be published by Boyds Mills Press in 2009.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (June)

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HOLLIS SHORE
Hollis has a BA from the University of Vermont and an MFA in writing from Vermont College, where she was a recipient of the Jane Resh Thomas Award for her critical thesis, “What is Left Unsaid: Building Meaning Through Elision.” Hollis is also a winner of a PEN New England Discovery Award for her novel The Curve of the World. She writes in central Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, David, their daughter, Dakotah, and their dog, Sir Luke of Bedlamb.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop for Historical Fiction

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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 for Young Adults
Workshop: Mining Your Memories

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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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