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.
Alex Gino
Alex Gino writes queer and progressive middle grade novels, including the Stonewall Award-winning Melissa. Alex is ...
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 is the author of Genesis Begins Again, which received the Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, was ...
Alisa Alering
Alisa Alering is a writer and editor living in southern Arizona. She writes fiction for children and adults and ...
Alison Green Myers
Alison is an avid reader, poet, and writer. She has served as a classroom teacher, literacy coach, curriculum ...
Amber McBride
Amber McBride is an Assistant Professor in the English department at UVA. She received a BA in English from JMU ...
Aminah Mae Safi
Aminah Mae Safi is the author of four novels, including Tell Me How You Really Feel and Travelers Along the Way: a ...
An Na
An Na was born in South Korea and grew up in San Diego, California. She is the author of three novels: A Step from ...
Andrea J. Loney
Andrea J. Loney’s picture books include the biography TAKE A PICTURE OF ME, JAMES VANDERZEE (Lee & Low Books ...
Andrea Page
Andrea Page (Hunkpapa Lakota / German) is a children’s author, educator, and Native Creative. Her debut middle ...
Andrew Karre
Andrew Karre is executive editor at Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, focusing ...
Angela Dominguez
Angela Dominguez was born in Mexico City, grew up in the great state of Texas, and now resides on the east ...
