Melanie Kroupa mkroupa@verizon.net    (781) 329-1987 SpecialtiesPicture books from preschool through picture books for older readers, literary fiction and narrative nonfiction for middle grade and young adult, as well as memoir that speaks to YA. Profile Melanie Kroupa has over thirty-five years of experience editing award-winning books for children and young adults, most recently under her own imprint at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her publishing career includes imprints at Orchard Books and DK Ink; publisher of Joy Street Books/Little, Brown; and publisher of Children’s Books at The Atlantic Monthly Press.

She has been fortunate to work with numerous authors for many years but also loves finding

and nurturing new voices. Among the books she has edited are Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian (a first novel and National Book Award finalist), We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History (a National Book Award finalist) and The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction), both by Phillip Hoose. Other books include Ibtisam Barakat’s memoir, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and Booklist Top 10 Biographies for Youth in 2007), Martha Brooks’ young adult novel Mistik Lake (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), and Janice N. Harrington’s picture book, The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County, which received four starred reviews.

To help get your work in the best shape possible, she can provide manuscript and proposal evaluation, substantive and line editing, and advice on writing/publishing for children and young adults.