Tetzlaff, Jeana
Jeana Tetzlaff is an ICL graduate and loves to write middle grade fiction. She has one mg novel on submission to Walker Publishing. In the works are an adult thriller and another middle grade novel that is fantasy grounded in the real world. She has been published in Grit Magazine.
Elwood, Tessa
Tessa Elwood is a photographer/webdesigner who writes YA, reads Garth Nix, and listens to everything from Iris to audiobooks. Her current novel is somewhere in the land of magical realism (without magic), her last straight up contemporary.
Cauthen, Lisha
YA writer of novels for boys that girls like to read too. I edit the funnyfied and informational Sunflower Scoop, the weekly newsletter of the Kansas SCBWI and serve as a member of the Advisory Committee. I have spoken at workshops and published an article with the Institute of Children’s Literature online. In addition to being a Wednesday Morning Critique Group Bon Vivant, I lead a Kansas SCBWI-sponsored, but not limited to SCBWI-members, monthly YA-only critique group. I blog, I facebook, I tweet. I make a nuisance of myself.
Casteel, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Casteel has a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Kansas State University. Her writing inspirations include prehistoric beasties and unicorns with an attitude. She is currently working on a middle grade science fiction novel.
Bunce, Stephanie
Elizabeth writes historical fantasy for young adults. Her first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold (2008), won the William C. Morris Award for a Young Adult Debut, was named a Kansas Notable Book, made Oprah’s Book Club list, and was honored by the Smithsonian. She is also the author of StarCrossed (2010) and its sequel, Liar’s Moon (forthcoming from Scholastic). Elizabeth is an accomplished needlewoman with an interest in embroidery and historical costuming, and she lives in suburban KC with her attorney and their dogs.
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