Middle Grade Presenters

More presenters will be added in the weeks to come.
The detailed session schedule will be available in late August.

 

Middle Grade Presenters

 
 

Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate is the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous books for young readers, including Odder, The One and Only Ivan, the Endling series, Crenshaw, Wishtree, the Roscoe Riley Rules and Doggo and Pupper chapter books series, and the Animorphs series. Home of the Brave, her first standalone novel, received the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award. She lives with her family in Irvine, California.

www.katherineapplegate.com.
 

Rob Harrell

Rob Harrell is the author of the middle grade novel Wink, the Life of Zarf series and the graphic novel Monster on the Hill, which was recently adapted into the animated film Rumble. In addition, Harrell created the comic strip Big Top and now writes and draws the daily strip Adam@Home. His latest book is the graphic novel Batpig: Too Pig To Fail, the second in a series. Harrell lives in Zionsville, Indiana with his wife and their dog, Shepler.

www.robharrell.com
 

Unfortunately, Faith Erin Hicks is no longer able to attend the 2022 Festival.

 

Faith Erin Hicks

Faith Erin Hicks is a writer and artist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Her published works include Ride On, Friends with Boys, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, The Last of Us: American Dreams (with Neil Druckmann), The Nameless City trilogy, Comics Will Break Your Heart, and the New York Times bestselling Pumpkinheads (with Rainbow Rowell).

credit Jeremy Lin

www.faitherinhicks.com
 

Rich Moyer

Rich Moyer specializes in the offbeat and irreverent as a syndicated cartoonist and an award-winning animator. He lives in Denver with his wife, Autumn, and daughters, Cleo and Juno. Ham Helsing is his debut graphic novel series.

www.richmoyer.com
 

Yohuru Williams

Yohuru Williams is a professor at St. Thomas University, and Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Museum in New York. He is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven and Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12, as well as editor and co-editor on numerous projects and publications. He lives in Minnesota.

www.yohuruwilliams.net
 

Michael G. Long

Michael G. Long is the author or editor of books on civil rights, religion, and politics, including Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography, which was selected as a best book of the year by Publishers' Weekly; Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny; Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball; Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; and Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. Long also served as an expert historian for Ken Burns's documentary on Jackie Robinson. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.