Cheyenne M. Stone is a Paiute who lives on the Big Pine Reservation in Inyo County, California, and she is very active in tribal affairs. She practices and teaches jewelry making, basket weaving, and holistic medicine. Additionally, she is an ethnographer who is involved in K-12 education, and she enjoys writing for children.
Glenda Armand has had a long career as both a teacher and school librarian in California, near the San Gabriel Mission that Toypurina rebelled against. She has been an active member of the SCBWI since 1998 and writes picture book biographies about people of color who overcome incredible odds to achieve great things. Her first book,
Love Twelve Miles Long, received Lee and Low's New Voices Award. Her second book,
Ira's Shakespeare Dream, received a starred review from
School Library Journal. She is also the author of
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins and
Black Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Find out more about Glenda at glenda-armand.com.
Katie Dorame is a Tongva artist of mixed ancestry--Indigenous and European American, born in Los Angeles, currently living and working in Oakland. Her work focuses on Indigenous representation, mythology, and Hollywood narratives. Dorame's work has been exhibited at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles, the National Willa Cather Center in Nebraska, Form & Concept in Santa Fe, and the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College in New York, in addition to Slash Art, Anglim Trimble, Southern Exposure, Galería de la Raza, Guerrero Gallery, and the Thacher Gallery in San Francisco. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts and her BA from UCSC. See more of Katie's work at katiedorame.com.
