Cameron Roberson, who writes under the pen name Rob Cameron, is a teacher, linguist, and writer. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and founder of Constellations Mentorship (https://www.kaleidocast.nyc/constellationshome) for the Octavia Project. He has poetry, stories, and essays in StarLine*, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com (https://reactormag.com/author/rob-cameron/), New Modality, Solarpunk Magazine, Apex, Clockwork Phoenix Five, Lightspeed, and others. Daydreamer (https://bookshop.org/a/17775/9780593572450), his debut middle grade novel, is a finalist for the Andre Norton, the Nebula award for middle grade and YA. (https://youtu.be/l4d8zNB0QJU?si=jZ7E6sU6wNb2-HwM&t=2203)Max Limric is a pre-service teacher in elementary education entering a co-teaching year at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut. He became interested in the power of children and young-adult texts while taking classes at Fairfield University, and further learned the power of literature when attending and presenting at the annual conference of the National Council of English. He grew up with speculative stories, being brought into the worlds of Harry Potter and The NeverEnding Story, and looks forward to unlocking their potential in his future classroom.About The Write TimeThe Write Time is a special series of NWP Radio, a podcast of the National Writing Project (NWP), where writing teachers from across the NWP Network interview young-adult and children’s authors about their books, their composing processes, and writers’ craft. View the archive... (https://teach.nwp.org/series/the-write-time/%5D(https://teach.nwp.org/series/the-write-time/)