Margo Lemieux is a professor at Lasell College in Newton, MA, with degrees in education and fine arts. Her published works include Full Worm Moon, The Fiddle Ribbon, Paul and the Wolf, and Wolf Moon. Her illustrated works include Lobsters & Crabs Oh My, I Like You to Make Jokes, Mean Words, and Zachary’s New Home. She has also worked as a book reviewer, freelance newspaper correspondent, graphic designer, and aerobics instructor.
Anna J. Boll is a children’s author/illustrator and middle grades educator. Anna’s writing credits include poetry in Babybug, Ladybug, Highlights for Children and Highlights High Five. She is the illustrator of Fufu and Fresh Strawberries for The Telling Room. Her illustrations have also appeared in advertisements in the on-line version of the New York Times, brochures for The West Bath Historical Society and The Pownal Land Trust, BJ Hickman’s Magic Shows, Magic, Fun & Games newspaper, and on a tote bag project for Books, Etc in Falmouth, Maine. Anna was a co-director of the 2008 and 2009 NESCBWI conferences and is an MFA candidate in the Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has a degree in Political Science and American Sign Language from the University of Rochester and a Masters of Science in Education from the University of Southern Maine. Link to more portfolio images, products, credits, and contact information at www.annajboll.com.
Sally Riley lives in Rhode Island with her kitty, Penny, and has been writing all her life (journals, Christmas letters, poems). But she had never consciously thought about writing books for children. Then, in 1999, a friend observed that she was less excited about teaching computer software programs than she had been. He asked her what she’d do if she weren’t teaching computers. Her answer came from somewhere in her subconscious, “I’d try to write a children’s book.” She decided to pursue that dream. In January 2001, she enrolled in Vermont College, and in January 2003, she received an MFA in “Writing for Children and Young Adults,” giving her life a whole new direction. She has received much encouragement from her two daughters and their husbands. And her writing is inspired by her two granddaughters. She first became involved with the SCBWI in 2001 and feels she receives much more than she gives — from conferences, retreats, workshops, networking with other writers, and especially from the critique group she found through the SCBWI.
