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By Grant Snider:
About the Hosts
Grant Snider began writing and drawing as a kid, creating pictures, poems, and stories from his imagination—often in collaboration with his twin brother, Gavin. His favorite books of poetry were Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein and Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book of Poems.
In college Grant began drawing comics for the student newspaper at the University of Kansas. After college he started a weekly online comic strip, Incidental Comics, online. Soon it gained a worldwide audience. Incidental Comics has been featured in the Best American Comics anthology and collected in the books The Shape of Ideas, I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf, The Art of Living, and Thinking About Thinking.
His book Poetry Comics was named a 2025 ALA Notable Book, a Kirkus Best Book of 2024, a 2025 NEA Read Across America selection, and a USA Today Bestseller.
Grant is the author of the picture books Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day, One Boy Watching, What Color Is Night?, What Sound Is Morning?, and My Words.
Grant lives with his wife and kids in Wichita, Kansas, where he works a day job as an orthodontist. His hobbies include cooking breakfast, reading, running, drawing, and redrawing.
Georgia Heard received the 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award which honors a living American poet for their aggregate work for children ages 3-13. She is the founder of The Poet’s Studio and has taught at Poet’s House, Teachers College, Columbia University, Gothenburg University, and in schools around the world. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Writers’ Workshop.
She is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and the author of 19 books. Her most recent poetry book & journal is A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope (co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich), and an anthology of poetry The Woman In This Poem: Women’s Voices in Poetry. She is also the author of several children’s poetry books including Welcome to the Wonder House (Random House), My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness (Macmillan), and Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two Or More Voices (Astra Books for Young Readers).