Women Who Write, Inc.
Since 1988
KIM CRUMRINE
AUTHOR, ILLUSTRATOR
Kim Crumrine is a WWW Board member and the Editor of Writers' Notes. She published her first picture book with minibombo in May of 2024 and her second one with them will be released in 2025. She is also a freelance illustrator and the owner/artist behind Water Street Design, a online greeting card company.
MEGHA MALHOTRA
Writer (PB, MG, & YA), Educator
Tech Trend Tracker & AI Explorer. Humor advocate. Known to find the funny with flair in the unexpected, while bridging the gap between creativity, technology, and literacy. Serving as Vice President and Conference Coordinator of the coolest clique in town - Women Who Write, Inc!
PAUL RABINOWITZ
EXEC. DIRECTOR, ARTS BY THE PEOPLE
Paul Rabinowitz is an author, screenwriter, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of art-making through varied forms and pathways. He is the author of 5 books including Confluence; The Clay Urn; truth, love and the lines in between; Limited Light and Grand Street, Revisited. Rabinowitz develops original content for film including the feature length called Bungalow.
Rabinowitz’s photography, prose and poetry appear in magazines and journals including The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Arcturus-Chicago Review Of Books, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Talking River Review, The Oddville Press and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022, Apricity Press in 2023 and Rappahannock Review in 2024. His photo series Limited Light was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz’s poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Independent Film Festival, Oregon Short Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival, Florence Indie Film Festival and Paris Film Festival. Rabinowitz has produced mixed media performances and poetry films that have appeared on stages and in theaters in New York City, New Jersey, Tel Aviv and Paris. He was nominated for the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award for outstanding service in the literary arts. He is the founder of The Platform, a monthly literary series in New Jersey, and Platform Review, a journal of voices from The Garden State. Rabinowitz’s videos, photography and poems appeared in his first multi medium solo exhibit called Retrospective With Reading Glasses, at CCM Gallery in 2022.
TARA LAZAR
AUTHOR
Street magic performer. Hog-calling champion. Award-winning ice sculptor. These are all things Tara Lazar has never been. Instead, she writes quirky, humorous picture books where anything is possible.
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Recent picture books include:
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FLAT CAT (Flamingo Books, 2023)
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ABSURD WORDS (SCBWI Golden Kite Award Winner) (Sourcebooks eXplore, 2022)
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TIME FLIES: DOWN TO THE LAST MINUTE (Little, Brown, 2022)
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BLOOP (HarperCollins, 2021)
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THREE WAYS TO TRAP A LEPRECHAUN (HarperCollins, 2020)
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THE UPPER CASE: TROUBLE IN CAPITAL CITY (Little, Brown, 2019)
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YOUR FIRST DAY OF CIRCUS SCHOOL (Tundra, June 2019)
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7 ATE 9: THE UNTOLD STORY (Little, Brown, 2017)
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WAY PAST BEDTIME (Aladdin/S&S, 2017)
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NORMAL NORMAN (Sterling, 2016)
KELLY PETERSON
AGENT, REES LITERARY AGENCY
West Chester University graduate with a B.S.Ed in English and Literature. She worked as a Junior Literary Agent for two years before moving to Rees Literary Agency, continuing to champion her authors and the manuscripts she loves. Kelly seeks books in various genres within Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult age ranges. She is very interested in representing authors with marginalized own voices stories, witty and unique characters, pirates, witches, and dark fantasies.
SHARONA WILHEIM
PUBLISHER, SCARSDALE PUBLISHING
Sharona Wilhelm has written and published forty-five books as Tarah Scott. She is both traditionally published and self-published. Sharona has won several literary awards, including the Daphne du Maurier’s unpublished romantic suspense category for Dangerous Liaisons, coauthored with Evan Trevane. Sharona has taught writing and has freelanced as an editor for fifteen years. She founded Scarsdale Publishing in 2016, a full-service press with a strong commitment to diversity in fiction. Sharona lives in Westchester County, NY.