Jonathan Alexander is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 22 books, including the Creep trilogy: Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology&nbsp;(finalist for a Lambda Literary Award);&nbsp;Bullied: The Story of an Abuse; and&nbsp;Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir. Other recent books include the memoir Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot&nbsp;and the forthcoming scholarly work,&nbsp;Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing. Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.&nbsp;

Jonathan Alexander

Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including&nbsp;Boy Proof,&nbsp;The P.L.A.I.N. Janes,&nbsp;The Year of the Beasts,&nbsp;Tin Star,&nbsp;and the Eisner-nominated&nbsp;Odd Duck. In 2015, she co-authored&nbsp;Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing&nbsp;Shade, The Changing Girl,&nbsp;an ongoing comic on Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint at DC Comics. And her newest Graphic Novel&nbsp;Soupy Leaves Home&nbsp;was released in April 2017.&nbsp;Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons,&nbsp;Tor.com, Womanthology,&nbsp;Star Trek: Waypoint, and Vertigo SFX: Slam!&nbsp;She is the Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus, a two-time Macdowell Fellow, and the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books.&nbsp;She lives in Los Angeles. Photo by Eric Charles.

Cecil Castellucci

Eric L. Tribunella is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches children’s and young adult literature. He is the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children’s Literature (2010), the co-author (with Carrie Hintz) of Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013), and the editor of a 2016 critical edition Edward Prime-Stevenson’s nineteenth-century gay children’s novel Left to Themselves.

Eric L. Tribunella

Julia Walton&nbsp;is the author of&nbsp;Words on Bathroom Walls (now a motion picture) and Just Our Luck. She received an MFA in creative writing from Chapman University and BA in History from the University of California, Irvine. Julia lives with her husband and children in Huntington Beach, California. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @JWaltonwrites and visit her website JuliaWalton.com.

Julia Walton

Hope Larson is the author of Salamander Dream, Gray Horses, Chiggers, and&nbsp;Mercury.&nbsp;She won a 2007 Eisner Award. She lives in Los Angeles.

Hope Larson

Cecilia Latiolais has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Cecilia Latiolais

Feeling the Fear of Difference: Celebrating “A Wrinkle in Time”

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Hope Larson is the author of Salamander Dream, Gray Horses, Chiggers, and&nbsp;Mercury.&nbsp;She won a 2007 Eisner Award. She lives in Los Angeles.