Our Faculty

The Highlights Foundation is proud to welcome authors, illustrators, children’s publishing professionals, educators, librarians, and others as faculty and special guests for our workshops.  Each course has its own specially designated leaders, but here you’ll find an overview of our faculty community.

A.M. Wild

A.M. Wild

A.M. Wild is a white, queer, nonbinary children’s book author who believes that books are places where we can ...
A.R. Vishny

A.R. Vishny

A.R. Vishny is a writer passionate about Jewish representation in pop culture. Her debut YA novel, Night Owls, ...
A.S. King

A.S. King

A.S. King has been called “One of the best Y.A. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review. King is ...
Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

Adriana Hernández Bergstrom is a Cuban American mixed-media illustrator who loves creating charming characters, ...
Adrianna Cuevas

Adrianna Cuevas

Adrianna Cuevas is the author of the Pura Belpre honor book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, the Edgar Award ...
Aida Salazar

Aida Salazar

Aida Salazar is an award-winning author, arts activist, and translator whose writings for adults and children ...
Alan Silberberg

Alan Silberberg

Alan is the author and illustrator of three Viking picture books with Jewish themes; MEET THE LATKES, MEET THE ...
Alex Gino

Alex Gino

Alex Gino writes queer and progressive middle grade novels, including the Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning ...
Alexandra Villasante

Alexandra Villasante

Alexandra Villasante’s debut young adult novel, The Grief Keeper was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard ...
Alicia D. Williams

Alicia D. Williams

Alicia D. Williams is the award-winning author of Genesis Begins Again, which received the Newbery and Kirkus ...
Alisa Alering

Alisa Alering

Alisa Alering grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania and now lives in southern Arizona. A former ...
Alison Green Myers

Alison Green Myers

Alison Green Myers is a passionate educator, novelist, and speaker. As the Program Director at the Highlights ...
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