About

Nancy Bo Flood
Nancy Bo Flood is the author of many books for children, most recently Warriors in the Crossfire, a young adult novel that explores one boy’s experiences with impending war on the Pacific island of Saipan. Throughout her life Bo Flood has enjoyed reading, writing, and the sharing of stories. Her work has focused primarily on children and young adults, as counselor, teacher, or parent. She has conducted workshops of child abuse, learning disabilities, play therapy, as well as creative writing. Through either work or research, Bo has lived in Malawi, Africa, Hawaii, Japan, the western Pacific, and, most recently, the Navajo Nation Reservation.

Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of several multicultural books, most recently the novel Gringolandia, a 2010 ALA Best Book for young adults. She is a seventh grade teacher in a Reform Jewish religious school and the assistant host of “Vientos del Pueblo,” a bilingual radio show on WRPI-FM in Albany, New York, featuring Latin American and Spanish music, poetry, and history.

J.L. Powers
J.L. Powers is the author of The Confessional, a novel for young adults that explores racial tension and violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and the author of This Thing Called the Future , a coming-of-age novel set in South Africa. She is the editor of Labor Pains and Birth Stories: Essays on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Becoming a Parent  and the editor of a forthcoming anthology exploring all aspects of children and war. She blogs on her website (www.jlpowers.net), edits the online literary magazine The Fertile Source (www.fertilesource.com), and is the publisher of Catalyst Book Press, an independent press that focuses on fertility-related literary nonfiction (www.catalystbookpress.com.)