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2023 Keynote Speaker

Phoebe Yeh

Phoebe Yeh

2023 Keynote Speaker

Phoebe Yeh is the Vice President and co-publisher at Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House. She worked with Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen on The Magic School Bus series and with Walter Dean Myers for twenty years. She acquired The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani), Big Nate (Lincoln Peirce) and Dear Martin (Nic Stone) as debut novels. She has published the New York Times bestsellers, Max & the Midknights (Lincoln Peirce), Clean Getaway (Nic Stone); and Marcus Makes a Movie (Kevin Hart). Recent novels include Operation Sisterhood (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich), Eb & Flow (Kelly J. Baptist) for tweens, Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park and Chaos Theory, a novel about mental health, substance abuse AND love by Nic Stone for teens. Yeh is a recipient of the inaugural CBC Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award.

2023 Success Story Speaker

Each year a formerly unpublished conference attendee, who has gone on to publish in the field of children's literature, shares his or her experience with aspiring authors and illustrators.

Colleen Rowan Kosinski

Colleen Rowan Kosinski

2023 Success Story Speaker

Author. Illustrator. Editor. Colleen writes picture books and middle grade novels. Her picture books include Love Made Me More, A Home Again, and Lilla’s Sunflowers. Her middle grade novel is titled A Promise Stitched in Time. Love Made Me More has garnered star reviews and was selected to be included in the Pizza Hut Book It! Program. Colleen is a committee member of the NJ SCBWI and also teaches private classes on picture book writing. She also works as an editor at Reedsy.com. Colleen’s book Love Made Me More was published after being mentored by Trinka Hakes Noble at a Rutgers One-On-One Plus Conference. Colleen is a graduate of Rutgers University, as are her husband and two sons. Her daughter followed the bright lights to work in the film industry in LA. Colleen works from her Cherry Hill, NJ studio with her canine assistant, Sage.

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