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What started as a hastily scrawled notebook of ideas on Katie Cook’s way back from a Chicago comics convention has turned into a popular webtoon with almost 30 million views and 3.1 million likes. Cook’s popular webtoon, Nothing Special, is getting…

Not new to the world of writing, Lio Min has profiled and interviewed many musical acts, including Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, and Mitski, and has had features in Nylon, Catapult and the Atlantic. Their debut novel Beating Heart Baby is a best…

Rebecca Evans worked as an artist and designer before going into children’s book illustration. She has written and/or illustrated 19 picture books and nine middle grade novels. Her latest picture book, Alone Like Me, follows a lonely Chinese girl who…

Tae Keller is an Asian American author and winner of the 2021 Newbery Award for When You Trap a Tiger. Her latest novel, Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone, follows Mallory, who has always followed the rules of fitting in. But when she meets Jennifer,…

Emily X.R. Pan is the author of The Astonishing Color of After, which received numerous accolades. She is also the co-creator of the Foreshadow anthology and the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine. Pan’s latest book, An Arrow to the Moon, is…

Asian American author and cartoonist Harmony Becker illustrated George Takei’s acclaimed graphic novel They Called Us Enemy, before writing her debut graphic novel, Himawari House, which originated as a webcomic called Himawari Share. The book tells…

No stranger to the world of YA, Filipina American author Melissa de la Cruz has written several bestselling series for teens, including Blue Bloods and Disney Descendants, and several stand-alone novels. Next summer marks de la Cruz’s first foray…

A pint-sized scientist with a giant-sized curiosity is making the leap from bestselling books to the TV screen this fall. Based on the Ada Twist, Scientist series written by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts (Abrams), the new Netflix…

As a photographer, a speech-language pathologist, and a food connoisseur, Michelle Sterling is no stranger to blending her artistic eye with her various passions. “My two loves in college were languages and art,” she says. “I majored in linguistics…

Indian American illustrator and writer Nidhi Chanani has published several books for young readers, including YA graphic novel Pashmina, and her illustrations have been featured at Disney Parks. Born in Kolkata, India and raised in California, she…

Australian author and illustrator Remy Lai has previously published two illustrated novels, Pie in the Sky and Fly on the Wall. Her first graphic novel, Pawcasso, is about an inquisitive girl who decides to follow a photogenic dog carrying a basket…

Jenny Lee is a television writer and producer who has worked on BET’s Boomerang, IFC’s Brockmire, Freeform’s Young & Hungry, and the Disney Channel’s Shake It Up. Lee previously published humor essay collections and middle-grade novels before writing…

Vietnamese American author Loan Le published several adult short stories and began working as an editor at Atria Books before writing her debut YA novel, A Phở Love Story. Celebrating her Vietnamese heritage through descriptions of delicious food,…

A desire to travel and use her nursing skills to help those less fortunate than herself took Jennifer Woodburn to Cambodia Ms Woodburn has conducted hospital and ward assessments, as well as helping to distribute emergency airway boxes designed to…

Like many student nurses, Katie Davis had not considered undertaking a career in research. But now she has there’s no looking back As the importance of healthcare research has grown, so too has the involvement of nurses. Nurse researchers and…

Rheumatoid arthritis nurse Alison Kent talks about what inspires her in nursing Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic progressive disease that primarily affects small joints, resulting in symptoms such as stiffness, joint deformity and immobility.…