Jerry Craft is the author-illustrator of #1
New York Times bestselling graphic novels
New Kid and its companion book,
Class Act.
New Kid was the first book in history to win the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the
Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature. In his latest book,
School Trip, Jerry hopes to share his love of travel in order to inspire kids and their families to see the world and embrace new cultures. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and now lives in Florida.
Guy Lockhard is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning narrator.
Marc Thompson, a voice actor and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, earned his BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, in 1997. He narrates many titles in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars series, and his voice can be heard in commercials, on radio, and on many cartoons, including MTV’s Daria, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and G.I. Joe: Sigma 6.
Phoebe Strole is an actress and an Earphones Award–winning narrator who was a finalist in 2014 for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in drama. She has appeared on Broadway in Spring Awakening and in various films and television series, including Hamlet 2, 30 Rock, Glee, and Rescue Me.
Rebecca Soler is a film and voiceover actress who won a 2009
AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of
After by Amy Efaw. Her audiobook credits include work by authors such as Judy Blume, James Patterson and Sarah Dessen. Soler has also narrated the popular young adult series
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Her voice over credits include various video games, like
Star Wars: The Old Republic and
Red Dead Redemption and television shows such as
Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She lives in New York City.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits (playing everything from brooding doctors to screwball hipsters). Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. Ron works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas, Ron grew up singing calypso onstage with his father (the country's number-one recording artist) before touring (and recording) in Europe with a jazz band. In his spare time, he impersonates the president while playing the ukulele.
January LaVoy is a talented actress and voiceover artist who is best known for her role on the long-running ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. A proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, she is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. She is the recipient of over thirty Earphones Awards, seven Audie Awards, and was named Publishers Weekly's Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013.
Miles Harvey is a voice talent and an Earphones Award–winning narrator.
Kim Mai Guest is an award-winning voice actor for audiobooks and video games. She can also be heard on television shows, such as G.I. Joe: Renegades, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, and Avatar, and in movies such asChill Out Scooby Doo and Dead Space: Aftermath. Her video game work includes Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, and The Lord of the Rings.
Miles Harvey is the author of the national and international bestseller
The Island of Lost Maps and the recipient of a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship. His book
Painter in a Savage Land was named a
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year. He teaches at DePaul University.
Robin Miles is
a veteran of Broadway, classical plays, television, and film. She is an
AudioFile Golden Voice, having won numerous Earphones Awards, ALA awards, and Audie Award nominations.
Dan Bittner is an actor and voice talent and winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audio narration. He has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
