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Notes on Contributors

      Nicole B. Adkins is an award-wining playwright, Artistic Associate with YouthPLAYS, and core visiting faculty in the Playwright’s Lab graduate program at Hollins University, Virginia. Co-author of Playwriting and Young Audiences: Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field, her plays have been produced in schools, museums, and theatres across the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Africa, and China.

      Cherie Allan was a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She taught both graduate and undergraduate children’s and young adult literature and youth popular culture. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at QUT and coordinator of a MEd unit on youth popular culture. Her book, Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (2012), was awarded the International Research Society for Children’s Literature’s (IRSCL) Honor Book Award in 2013.

      Thaddeus Andracki is a white settler living and working on land stolen by the United States from the Council of Three Fires – the Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe Nations. A middle school librarian at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, he focuses his research on theoretical and practical aspects of race, gender, sexuality, and indigeneity in children’s and young adult literatures. His work has previously been presented at the Children’s Literature Association conference and appeared in multiple edited collections.

Evelyn Arizpe holds the Chair of Children’s Literature at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, and is co-founder of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree programme, “Children’s Literature, Media and Culture.” She has taught and published widely both nationally and internationally and has co-authored Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts (2003/2016) and Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives (2014). She has also co-edited Children as Readers in Children’s Literature: The Power of Text and the Importance of Reading (2016) and Young People Reading: Empirical Research across International Contexts (2018). Her current research involves children’s literature and the arts in projects on migration, conflict, and peacebuilding.

      Elizabeth Bush received a BA degree from Roosevelt University, an MA degree from Governors State University, and an MLS degree from Rosary College (now Dominican University.) She was a librarian within Archdiocese of Chicago for two decades. After reviewing for Booklist she came to the Bulletin, where she has been a reviewer for nearly thirty years. She taught as an adjunct lecturer in the Youth Services program at the iSchool of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served on the Boston Globe-Horn Book, Robert F. Sibert, Gryphon, and Scott O’Dell Awards Committees.

      Mike

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