KIRSTI CALL is an award winning author who hosts the COACHING FOR CREATIVES podcast and co-hosts the PICTURE BOOK LOOK podcast. She’s a critique ninja for 12×12, a blogger for Writers’ Rumpus, and she’s judged the CYBILS award for fiction picture books since 2015. She’s the author of MOOTILDA’S BAD MOOD (Little Bee), COW SAYS MEOW (Clarion) COLD TURKEY (Little Brown), THE BIG SCREAM (Little Simon), and SMARTY ANTS (Capstone, August 2023). Kirstine has an MSW from Boston College and is represented by Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency.