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BiographyCurrently an Art Director at Charlesbridge, Kristen
spends her days collaborating with illustrators, authors, and editors to create thoughtful books for children, reading them to her kids at night. As founding publisher of Page Street Kids, the children’s division of Page Street Publishing in Salem, MA, she focused on working with new talent and publishing art-led narrative picture books. She is proud of the imprint’s early critical success highlighted by 10 starred reviews over 23 books and several mentions on best-books-of-the-year lists. At Candlewick Press in the greater Boston area, Kristen worked on multiple New York Times best-selling and award-winning books, kicked off an Entertainment imprint, and managed the art department for 13 years. She got her start in children’s books at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. Kristen graduated from the University of Buffalo with degrees in Communication Design and Art History, and has pursued further studies at SVA, Harvard, and Mass Art. Her passion for children’s books has been passed down from her mother, an elementary teacher, and her grandmother, a librarian. Most weekends Kristen can be found swimming, hiking, shopping the farmer’s markets, and curling up with a good book next to the fireplace in Providence or at her lake house in Maine. |
Thank you so much for giving me my first big break . . . for giving me confidence
and for rekindling my excitement in writing.
—Josh Crute, author of Oliver, The Largest Living Thing on Earth
and Jonas Hanway's Scurrilous, Scandalous, Shockingly Sensational Umbrella (both published by Page Street Kids)
and for rekindling my excitement in writing.
—Josh Crute, author of Oliver, The Largest Living Thing on Earth
and Jonas Hanway's Scurrilous, Scandalous, Shockingly Sensational Umbrella (both published by Page Street Kids)