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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 has two new books on the way. The Year I Stopped Drawing: An Illustrated Novel-in-Verse, coming in November, is a middle-grade story about losing your creative voice—and finding it again. His second poetry-comics collection, Poetry Comics: Flights of Imagination, will be published in 2027.
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 is the recipient of the 2023 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, which honors a living American poet for their aggregate work for children ages 3–13.
She is the founder of The Poet’s Studio, an online gathering place where poets, writers, educators, and artists come together to deepen their creative practice. Through The Poet’s Studio, Georgia offers workshops on poetry, writing, and creativity and has hosted dozens of today’s most interesting and inspiring writers and artists.
She has taught at Poets House, Teachers College, Columbia University, Gothenburg University, and in schools around the world. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Writers’ Workshop, a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and the author of over twenty books.
Georgia’s books for young readers include 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), among others.
Her forthcoming books include Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Poems About Names (Candlewick Press, March 2027) and Words I Might Have Eaten (Wordsong/Astra Books for Young Readers, 2027).
Her most recent poetry book and journal is A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope, co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich. She is also the editor of the poetry anthology The Woman in This Poem: Women’s Voices in Poetry.