All the members of Heartland Writers for Kids and Teens, including new writers and published authors.
Angie Rodesky is new to the world of writting and is currently enrolled with the Institute of Children’s Literature. She has enjoyed making up stories for her children for many years and decided to putting pen to paper, so to speak. She has written a few stories that have sparked some local interest and desires to become a published author.
Marilyn Underwood lives with her husband, two sons and assorted cats, dogs, and a large snake named Zoey. While she writes mostly Middle Grade and Picture Books, she has had a poem and an adult short story published. When not writing, she can be found reading, gardening and creating new recipes.
Sue Ford has sold over 130 magazine pieces for children and adults. Sue writes for children under her maiden name, Susan Uhlig. She has been an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for 18 years. She also is an instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature. Sue’s website susanuhlig.com has writing resources and recommendations of children’s books. She is currently marketing a tween novel.
First published as a freshman in high school, when I submitted a response to Reader’s Digest at the urging of my English teacher. Really, it wasn’t that big of a deal; I probably shouldn’t even mention it. Wrote a few freelance cards for Hallmark, so few that I probably shouldn’t even be mentioning that either. Wrote and directed a few years of the “Haunted Forest” for the City of Lee’s Summit. They gave me an award for it, then decided…
Jenny Whitehead is the author/illustrator of Lunch Box Mail (2001—a collection of poems from a child’s point of view), Holiday Stew (2007—poems based on holidays and seasons) and illustrator of Punctuation Celebration (2009—poems about punctuation marks written by Elsa Knight Bruno). She enjoys writing poetry, stories, and young adult fiction. Her artwork style involves painting and collage, layering cut paper and tissue paper. Her website is www.jennywhitehead.com.
Author, columnist, All Around Good Guy…Jenifer Brown has been writing since, well, forever. Two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award (2005 & 2006), humor columnist for The Kansas City Star (winning the Missouri Writer’s Guild 2008 Conference Award for Best Newspaper Column), and Saturday Featured Blogger for Mom2Mom KC, Jennifer has been out to prove since childhood that being a smart-ass can, indeed, be considered “making a living.” When not rolling her eyes and thinking up news ways…
Laura Huliska-Beith grew up in Omaha Nebraska, the oldest of five children. Her siblings and husband were the inspiration behind her first picture book, The Book of Bad Ideas (although she takes full credit for Bad Idea #143). Her parents, both avid readers (her mother, a teacher) were generous providers of paper, crayons, encouragement, support, and every craft media the 1970s offered. After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute, Laura went on to work as an artist at Hallmark…
Current projects include: learning to write a short story, writing a journal of letters for my granddaughter, and other short creative writing projects for practice.
Charlotte Adelsperger, a former third grade teacher, writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children and adults. Author of three books for adults, she has written material for all ages in more than 200 publications and compilations. Charlotte’s narrative article about the 1956 Andrea Doria shipwreck appeared in Cricket, October 2009. Her stories appear regularly in Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse and Clubhouse, Jr. She has taught writers’ workshops in six states. Her first book was for adults: When Your Child…
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