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PARTICIPANTS
The Speakers
David Almond is the author of Skellig, Clay, The Savage, Raven Summer and many other novels, stories and plays. His major awards include the Printz Award, two Whitbreads and the Carnegie Medal. His work is translated into over thirty languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. He has three new books coming out in 2010, including My Name is Mina, a companion book to Skellig. His modern mystery play, Noah and the Fludd, will be produced in the UK in May. He lives with his family in Northumberland. M. T. Anderson is the author of numerous picture books, comic adventure stories and young adult novels. They include Feed, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I: The Pox Party and Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves as well is the outlandishly comic Whales on Stilts, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, and Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware. His work has been honoured with the National Book Award for Young People, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and Michael L. Printz Honor Awards, among others. He has been an instructor the MFA program in writing for children and young adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and music critic for The Improper Bostonian. Deirdre Baker is the author of the children’s novel Becca at Sea, and co-author of A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books. She is the children’s book reviewer for the Toronto Star, and reviews regularly for The Horn Book Magazine and Quill and Quire. She teaches children’s literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Lawrence Buell is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, a pioneer of Ecocriticism and specialist on antebellum American literature. He is the author of The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture; Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond; and The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination, among other volumes. He is the 2007 recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary studies. He won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism for his 2003 book on Ralph Waldo Emerson. His Writing for an Endangered World won the 2001 John G. Cawelti Award for the best book in the field of American Culture Studies. Susan Cooper is the author of the now classic The Dark is Rising sequence, as well as many other fantasies, picture books and works of historical fiction for children, including Dawn of Fear, Seaward, King of Shadows and Victory. She has won the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, and the Tir na n’Og Award, and has written for stage, film and television. She has presented papers on children’s literature throughout the world; some of them are collected in Dreams and Wishes. She now lives in the middle of a saltmarsh on the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Sarah Ellis writes juvenile fiction, picture books, young adult short stories and creative non-fiction. Her works include The Baby Project, Back of Beyond, A Prairie as Wide as the Sea, The Several Lives of Orphan Jack and Odd Man Out, among others. She has won such awards as the Governor General's Award, the Sheila A. Egoff Award, the Mr. Christie Book Award and the TD Award. Sarah has presented papers around the world, and was a regular lecturer at the annual Children's Literature New England conferences. She reviews regularly for The Horn Book Magazine and Quill and Quire, and is the only children’s writer to have been a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. She currently teaches in the MFA program in writing for children and young adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a recovering librarian. Marguerite Holloway teaches at the Journalism School at Columbia University, where she has won both a Presidential Teaching Award and the Distinguished Teacher of the Year award. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American, where she has covered many topics, particularly environmental issues, public health, neuroscience and women in science. She has worked as a reporter for the Medical Tribune and her writings have appeared in many publications, including The Village Voice, Mother Jones, Discover, The New York Times, Natural History and Wired. She has written for MUSE, the Smithsonian’s magazine for children, as well as Scientific American Explorations, Scientific American’s magazine for children. She is a member of the Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education and is currently working on a book about nature and cities for W.W. Norton. Tim Wynne-Jones is the author of Zoom at Sea and many other picture books, short stories and young adult novels, including Some of the Kinder Planets, The Maestro, and The Boy in the Burning House. He has also published several mysteries for adults. He has won the Governor General’s Award (twice), the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America, the Arthur Ellis Award of the Crime Writers of Canada, and been short-listed for the Guardian Award in Great Britain. His new thriller, The Uninvited, was published in the spring of 2009. His latest novel, Rex Zero, The Great Pretender is the third in the series that began with Rex Zero and the End of the World, in honour of which the Canadian Cold War Museum in Ottawa opened a permanent display entitled Rex Zero Headquarters. His work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish and Catalan. Tim teaches in the MFA program in writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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