
Michelle Coppola, Clarion Books editor

Karen Stormer Brooks, illustrator of picture books: The Always Moon (First Story Press '98); Baby Chick
(Boyds Mills Press, Spring 2000) & Susan Campbell Bartoletti,author, most recent books: No Man's Land:
A Young Soldier's Story (Blue Sky/Scholastic '99); Kids on Strike! (Houghton Mifflin '99);
award-winning Growing Up in Coal Country (Houghton Mifflin '96)

Kate & JoAnn Weatherly, Fall Conference Coordinator; Joan Broerman, Southern Breeze Regional Advisor;
Kerry & Danny Schnitzlein, author and illustrator

Barbara Timberlake Russell, author, most recent books: The Taker's Stone (DK INK '99);
Blue Lightning (Viking); Last Left Standing (Houghton Mifflin)

Diane Shore, poet, author, teacher, storyteller

Tracy Barrett, author, most recent books: Anna of Byzantium (Delacorte Press '99);
Kentucky, in series Celebrate the States (Benchmark Books '99);
The Trail of Tears: American Tragedy (Perfection Learning Corp. 9/99).

Etta Wilson, literary agent

Han Nolan,author National Book Award Winner
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