1. What fills your creative wellspring? Books, books, books!!! Also, TV, movies, games and stuff. Combine any of the things you enjoy...

1. What initially drew you to comics? My go-to answer is Batman: The Animated series, stretching as far back as first grade. I had...

1. What initially drew you to comics? I was first introduced to comics from my cousin, but it was thanks to my third grade teacher who...

1. As a literacy prof, I’m always curious about how people come to be readers and writers. Can you share some of your journey with us? I...

1. What inspired you to write for young readers? With the first few books I wrote for kids, I thought it was just that I’d fallen in love...

1. What draws you to write for young readers? I have wanted to be an author since I was in third grade, but it wasn't until I had my own...

1. What initially drew you to write for young readers? Quite simply, it was a love for the books I grew up reading—the ones that turned...

1. What draws you to write for young people? A lot of the themes I wanted to write about centered on identity and looking back, that...

1. What initially drew you to comics? Ha! "Drew you" I love a pun These days I would've been diagnosed with some kind of neuro-divergence...

1. What inspires you to write for young readers? I'm inspired by children's literature of all kinds: picture books, Early Readers,...

1. Please tell us what inspired your work in Song for a Whale (as well as any future work you’d like to share about). It was the...

Image from GirlsLife.com. 1. Please tell us about your upcoming book, We Weren't Looking to be Found. It’s a story about two teenage...

1. What initially drew you to comics? Like many kids back in the pre-internet, prehistoric era of the 1970s, I honed my reading skills...

1. What inspires you to write and create for young people? --My first inspiration was my father, John Steptoe, also an award-winning...

1. What drew you to comics? I like your wording there! My dad was an excellent amateur cartoonist and my mom had a wild sense of humor...

1. Please tell us about your latest work, A Song Called Home, and any future works you’d like to share about. A Song Called Home is the...

1. You have been a pioneer in the pandemic for creative digital connections - what inspired you to take this role? Thanks! It was a...

1. What first drew you to comics? My dad bought comics when he was a kid and I grew up with his wonderful collection of Golden Age comic...

Image from Twitter 1. What draws you to write for young readers and adolescents? The target audience of every book I write is, well, me!...

1. What drew you to comics? Didn't have to be "drawn" there, I was there pretty well since birth. My dad was a cartoonist as a young...