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Meet our Past Mentors and Mentees
PAST MENTORS:
2018 Editor Mentors: Andrea Davis Pinkney - Vice President, Executive Editor at Scholastic, Taylor Norman - Children’s Editor at Chronicle Books, Nan Gatewood Satter – Independent Book Editor
2019 Editor Mentors: Andrea Spooner – VP, Editorial Director of Picture Books at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Alvina Ling – VP, Editor-in-Chief at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Nikki Garcia – Editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Amber Oliver - Assistant Editor at Harper/Harper Perennial
2020 Editor Mentors: Brian Geffen - Editor, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers (Macmillan Children's), Jessica Anderson - Associate Editor, Chrisy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group, Kate Meltzer - Editor, Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan Children's), Sylvan Creekmore - Associate Editor, St. Martin's Press (Macmillan), Tiffany Liao - Senior Editor, Zoho Books
2021 Editor Mentors: Alyson Heller - Senior Editor, Aladdin Books, Caitlyn Dlouhy - Vice President/Publisher, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Deeba Zargarpur - Editor, Books for Young Readers and Salaam Reads, Jessica (Jessi) Smith - Associate Editor, Aladdin Books, Kate Prosswimmer - Editor, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Lashanda Anakwah - Assistant Editor, Simon & Schuster,
Sally Howe - Editor, Scribner
2022 Editor Mentors: Amy Li - Associate Editor, Crown, Estee Zandee - Editor, WaterBrook & Multnomah, Gianna Lakenauth - Assistant Editor, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Khari Dawkins - Assistant Editor, Doubleday, Lydia Gregovic - Assistant Editor, Delacorte Press, Maria Camila Correa - Assoicate Editor, Random House Books for Young Readers, Matt Phipps - Assistant Editor, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Mia Council - Associate Editor, Penguin Press, RÅ«ta Rimas - Executive Editor, Razorbill, Sareer Khader - Assistant Editor, Berkley, Stacey Barney - Associate Editor, Nancy Paulsen Books
2023 Editor Mentors: Andrea Spooner - VP, Editoral Director, Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers, Caitlin McKenna - Editorial Director, Fiction, Random House, Eileen Rothschild - VP, Associate Publisher (Wednesday Books) Executive Editor (St. Martin's Publishing Group), Erum Khan - Editor, Abrams, Lee Wade VP + Publisher, Random House Studio, Penguin Random House, Leslie Calhoun - Associate Editor, Ink & Willow, Samantha Gentry - Editor, Little, Brown and Company, Simone Roberts-Payne - Editor, PRH, Want Chyi - Editorial Assistant, Penguin Young Readers
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2024 Editor Mentors: Naomi Gibbs - Executive Editor, Pantheon Books (PRH), Charlotte Peters - Editorial Assistant, Dutton & Plume (PRH), Leyla Erkan - Assistant Editor, LBBFYR, Christy Ottaviano Books (HBG), TJ Ohler - Assitant Editor, Zando, Rachel Diebel - Editor, Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan Children's)
PAST MENTEES:
2018 Writer Mentees: Nadine Johnson, Maleeha Siddiqui, Maria Ramos Chertok
2019 Writer Mentees: Denise Adusei, Dionna L. Mann, Rosario Martinez, Samuel Kóláwolé
2020 Writer Mentees: Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Celia Viramontes, Sara Kapadia, Swetha S., Jeanne Paulino
2021 Writer Mentees: Yvette Yun, Mimi Wong, H'rina DeTroy, Stefanie Foster Brown, Sope Martins, Rehannah Azeeyah Khan
2022 Writer Mentees: Meriam Ben Hamza, Adriana Lebrón White, Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Sophie Li, J.H. Ahn, Kim Fears, Raksha Vasudevan, Patricia Martin, Nurin Chatur, Kari M. Johnson, Charlotte Yeung
2023 Writer Mentees: Taunya English, Shuchi Mehta, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Cynthia Harmony, Sasha Thomas, Angela M. Sánchez, Belen Medina, Edwina Joe-Kamara, Ebonie Ledbetter
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2024 Writer Mentees: Brenton Zola, Carmen Catena, R.C. Chizhov, Marisa Catalina Casey, Trinity Clements-Clark
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