Katie Sciurba
Katie Sciurba has wanted to write children’s books for as long as she can remember. As a girl growing up in Los Angeles, she penned stories on paper tablets left over from her grandfather’s job at a stationary store during her grandmother’s very long “siestas,” when she was not allowed to go outside. While pursuing her MFA in Writing for Children at The New School, Katie signed a contract for her first picture book, OYE, CELIA!: A SONG FOR CELIA CRUZ (Henry Holt). In addition to OYE, CELIA!, which was named a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year and a CCBC Choices Book, she has written numerous texts for children learning English in South Korea and several articles for Faces Magazine. As a former Bronx, New York elementary school teacher and a scholar with a PhD in English Education from New York University, Dr. Sciurba has published numerous academic works focused on children’s literature and/or literacy education, most notably READING AND RELEVANCE, REIMAGINED: CELEBRATING THE LITERACY LIVES OF YOUNG MEN OF COLOR (Teachers College Press) which received the 2025 Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education and a 2026 Outstanding Book Honorable Mention from the Society of Professors of Education. In addition to serving as a current co-editor for the Journal of Children’s Literature, Katie is an Associate Professor of Literacies and Children’s Literature in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, where she lives with her husband and sons.
Represented by Emily Mitchell.