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.R. Vishny
A.R. Vishny is a writer passionate about Jewish representation in pop culture. Her debut YA novel, Night Owls, ...
Aida Salazar
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author, arts activist, and translator whose writings for adults and children ...
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 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 both the Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, ...
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. Alison has served as a classroom teacher, literacy coach, curriculum ...
Ally Malinenko
Ally Malinenko is a poet, novelist, and librarian living in Brooklyn, New York, where she pens her tales in a ...
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris is a queer Afro-Latine/x Dominican and Puerto Rican storyteller. Her ability to weave ...
Amber McBride
Amber McBride estimates she reads about 100 books a year. Her work has been published in literary magazines ...
Aminah Mae Safi
Aminah Mae Safi is the award-winning author of four novels, including Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & ...
