Pamela Craik Voelkel graduated from Leeds University in English Language and Literature, and became an advertising copywriter. As creative director of Craik Jones Watson Mitchell Voelkel, she helped the agency win hundreds of creative awards.…

Jon Voelkel grew up in Peru, Costa Rica, and Colombia. After business school, he worked in advertising, ultimately starting his own agency with four other partners, one of whom would be his future wife.…

N. H. Senzai is a Bay Area author and intellectual property consultant. Her debut novel, Shooting Kabul, is based in part on her husband’s experience fleeing Soviet controlled Afghanistan in the 1970s.…

Deborah Underwood is the author of The Quiet Book, A Balloon for Isabel, and Granny Gomez & Jigsaw. She has written numerous nonfiction books for kids, and co-writes the Sugar Plum Ballerina chapter book series with Whoopi Goldberg.…

Truong Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. In addition to his children’s book, Going Home, Coming Home, he has written several critically acclaimed books of poetry. He currently lives in San Francisco.…

Nadia Krilanovich has worked as an artist, dance instructor, and vocalist. For Moon Child, her first book for children, Nadia felt inspired by the idea that the moon seems to watch over all of us.…

Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen believes that talking pigs or platypi make a story better. She lives outside Philadelphia with her children and Penny, an imaginary pony.…

Dawn Marie Knopf is a writer-in-residence with California Poets in the Schools. Her poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Bomb, Black Warrior Review, and Verse.…

Peter Lilenthal is the illustrator of the recent board book Look at Baby’s House! and previously taught children’s art. He leads an adult class on teaching bookmaking at the San Francisco Center for the Book.…

Peninsula artist Laura Regan is recognized nationally for her wildlife paintings. She has received awards for many of her 13 nature-themed children’s books, including Welcome to the Green House and Pierre the Penguin.…