Daria Peoples earned a BA in English at UC Santa Barbara, California, where she found herself shelving books at the library and reading many notable writers. Daria’s debut picture book, This is It was published by Greenwillow/HarperCollins in 2018, she has then illustrated many other children’s books, which can be found on her website.

Self-Identifiers: Black; Cuban; Female

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Nina Crews is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator of picture books for children from Pre-K through 3rd grade. Her titles include One Hot Summer Day, I’m Not Small, Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change, A Girl Like Me, The Neighborhood Mother Goose, Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright, and Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton. While she is known for her distinctive photo collage style, Nina has put her camera aside to create digitally rendered and collaged illustrations in her latest projects. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.

Self-Identifiers: African-American

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