| Lisa Diercks
Director, Publishing and Writing
Graduate Program, Emerson College
Ms. Diercks has taught courses in book design and production,
magazine design and production, and desktop publishing at Boston’s
Emerson College since 1996. Ascenders & Descenders, the book designed
and produced by her 1999 book design class, was accepted into the
2000 New England Book Show; Hot Metal, from her 2002 class, was accepted
into the 2003 Book Show; and Foul, from her 2003 class, made the 2004
Book Show. Ms. Diercks began her career at Houghton Mifflin/Trade
and established her own design studio in 1987. Her publishing clients
have included the Atlantic Monthly; Beacon Press; Boston Common Press;
Candlewick; Clarion Books; HarperCollins; Harvard University Press;
Houghton Mifflin; Little, Brown; and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
She continues to work on 10-15 publishing projects a year. Chocolate
on the Brain, a book she designed, won an award at the 2002 Book Show.
Nancy Gruver
Founder/Publisher
New Moon magazine
Ms. Gruver is founder and publisher of the groundbreaking
international publication, New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and
Their Dreams. Ms. Gruver is a national leader in the movement to empower girls
and foster their creativity and self-confidence. New Moon is an advertising-free
magazine with more than 50,000 readers worldwide and 2,000 bookstore
outlets. It has garnered many awards including nine Parent’s Choice
Foundation Awards (including Best Children’s Magazine, 1995, 1997,
1999-2003), five Educational Press Association of America Design and
Editorial Awards, and a National Association for Multicultural Education
Award. Ms. Gruver is a frequent speaker and media guest on girls’ adolescence,
the Girls Movement, and successful strategies for parents and professionals
who live and work with girls 8 to 14 years old. She is also the recipient
of many awards, from Parenting magazine’s Parenting Achievement
Award to the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Feminist of the Year
Award.
Uma Krishnaswami
Writer/Teacher
Ms. Krishnaswami is a frequent contributor to Cricket,
Highlights, Ladybug and Spider magazines.
She has written many books including The Broken Tusk,
winner of the Scientific American Young Readers Book
Award in 1997. She recently published her first novel,
Naming Maya. Through Writers.com, Ms. Krishnaswami teaches
an online course on writing for children. She also conducts
a writing workshop for children through the National
Park Service at the Aztec Ruins National
Monument in northwest New Mexico.
Mitali Perkins
Writer
Mitali Bose Perkins was born in Kolkata, India, and lived
in several continents (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) before settling
with her parents and two sisters in California. Her specialty is writing
about life "between cultures," and believes that the view
is often clearer when you’re straddling borders. Ms. Perkins is
the author of several novels for young readers, including Monsoon
Summer (Random House), The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life
of Sunita Sen (Little
Brown), Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge), and a forthcoming two-book series
about a President’s daughter (Dutton/Penguin). She speaks frequently
in libraries and schools about writing and about her experiences of
growing up as an immigrant kid. Ms. Perkins is the mother of twin boys
and is married to the Rev. Robert Perkins. They live in Newton, Massachusetts. |
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