Authors & Illustrators

Alice Ahlers loves Christmas cookies, but she’s always been better at writing than baking (Oops, burnt again!). She studied German language and literature, worked as an editor for several years at various daily newspapers, and now works as a freelance journalist and author. She loves writing for children and parents most of all.

Anna Galitskaya lives in Bavaria with her husband and two children. Since turning her passion for drawing into a career, this graduate in philology and business administration has been working successfully as an illustrator with publishers both in Germany and abroad. When she’s not painting, she goes on outings, takes photos, plays the violin, or…

Nathalie Seïdou is a graduate of the Institut Saint Luc in Brussels. She has worked in the fashion industry and at the Brussels Opera, and has taught art at all educational levels, including art colleges and vocational schools. Today, she works full-time as an illustrator. Her colorful and poetic style gives her drawings a surrealistic…

Elizabet Vuković grew up around makers in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her mom introduced her to making with fabrics. She and her sister accompanied their dad on many trips to the hardware store for his constant home renovation projects, and her sister continues to use Elizabet as her guinea pig for many outrageous inventions. Elizabet graduated…

Katey Howes loved writing books for children. She was the award-winning author of the picture books Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe, Grandmother Thorn, Be a Maker, and Rissy No Kissies which was named a Kirkus Best Children’s Book, a Rise: A Feminist Book Project List book, and a Keystone to Reading Book…

Scientist and writer Marie Miranda Cruz grew up in the Philippines, and her work reflects her multicultural roots, both in the country of her birth and her adopted California. Her debut novel, Everlasting Nora (Tor 2018), received starred reviews from Kirkus and SLJ and was a JLG selection, SLJ Day of Dialog selection, and BEA…

Katherine Speller is an editor, writer, researcher and journalist based in Brewster, New York. She is also the Editorial Director of Evergreen and Growth at Parents. Her work covering health, wellness, reproductive rights, social issues, politics, technology, sex and relationships, astrology and pop culture have appeared in MTV News, Women’s Health, Bitch, The Daily Dot,…

Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major, and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books, and novels. She has written extensively in the Star Trek, Battletech, Mechwarrior: Dark Age, and Shadowrun universes. Her original stories have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines…

Meghan Doherty is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared in books such as Super Pop! Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make It Through the Holidays and on websites and posters for a variety of clients. She has contributed to the Brooklyn-based web…

Ashley Jean Granillo is a Mexican American writer and educator hailing from the San Fernando Valley. She has her BA and MA in creative writing from California State University Northridge and holds her MFA in fiction from the University of California Riverside, Palm Desert. She is also a member of Las Musas, a collective of…

Luciano Lozano, born in 1969, has been working as an illustrator since 2007, after completing a postgraduate degree in Creative Illustration at the Eina School in Barcelona. In 2012, he won the Junceda Prize for the best book published abroad. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Book Award at the School Library Association…

Chiara Delle Donne graduated in Contemporary History from the University of Bologna, against the backdrop of the La Pantera student movement and demonstrations against the war in Yugoslavia. She arrived in Madrid on a postgraduate scholarship to study the anti-militarist movement in Spain. She currently lives in Alcalá de Henares. At the Diógenes bookshop she…

Ilona Einwohlt studied German language and literature, Spanish and history and worked for various publishing houses before becoming a freelance author and setting up her own office for children’s and young adult literature. She lives with her family near Darmstadt. www.ilonaeinwohlt.de

Nele Palmtag was born in Böblingen in 1973 and trained as an occupational therapist before studying illustration in Bremen and Hamburg. She lives with her family in Hamburg and works as a freelance illustrator. She draws and creates collages for other authors as well as for her own texts, which are also recorded as audio…

Heidemarie Brosche (born 1955) was a secondary school teacher until her retirement and has been successfully writing children’s books, young adult novels and non-fiction books for over 30 years. In her books and lectures, she promotes a spirit of togetherness based on mutual appreciation. www.h-brosche.de    

Janet Fox is the author of fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. Her work has received numerous awards and accolades including a SCBWI Golden Kite Award, a Bank Street Best Books Award, and the Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award Master List. Janet received a Master of Science degree from the University of New…

Debbie Loren Dunn is an author of nonfiction books for children and young adults based in Texas. She graduated with a degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and worked in the computer industry for twenty years specializing in databases and data mining. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of…

Timo Grubing, born in 1981, studied design in Münster and has since lived and worked as an illustrator in his hometown of Bochum, where he regularly ventures into the comic genre, primarily illustrating children’s and young adult books. He particularly enjoys illustrating action-packed covers for all kids who love adventure!

Sibel Susann Teoman has a Greek grandfather, a French grandmother and a Tatar grandmother, a German father and a Turkish mother. Add to that a husband who is half Turkish and half Bosnian and two children who grew up trilingual in four countries, and you have a fun mix of different languages and cultures! After…

Kaja Grimme has lived in a small village in England, a metropolis in the USA and three different houses in Stuttgart, but she feels most at home in her own stories. She studies literature at Lake Constance and spends her nights writing poetry slams and books full of puzzles and twists. ‘Das kartografische Komplott’ (The…