Patricia Morris Buckley (Kahnawá:ke Mohawk)
is the regional advisor emeritus for SCBWI San Diego and taught writing for children for the University of San Diego extension program. A newspaper reporter and editor for many years, she followed her passion for children’s literature to become an elementary school librarian. She is the author of the Step into Reading book
First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller. She also blogs on nativeamericankidlit.com, a site she runs to celebrate Native creators of books for younger readers.
E. B. Lewis, award-winning illustrator and fine artist, has illustrated more than seventy-five books for children, including the Caldecott Honor winner Coming on Home Soon. He won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin’ About Bessie and has earned the Coretta Scott Kind Illustrator Honor Award four times. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Lewis taught art in public schools for twelve years. He now teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Visit eblewis.com.
