Lisa (L.D.) Harkrader

Lisa Harkrader

Lisa Harkrader is a talented graphics designer, illustrator, and an award winning children’s writer. She is the author of twelve books for children including Airball: My Life in Briefs, a Junior Library Guild Selection and winner of the 2006 Juvenile Literary Award from the Friends of American Writers. She has published over two hundred stories, articles, and poems in magazines such as Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, and Guideposts for Kids and in several anthologies, including Meadowbrook’s Newfangled Fairy Tales. She has received SCBWI’s Magazine Merit Award four times, for fiction and poetry.

Harkrader holds a BFA in art and has worked as a graphic designer for nearly twenty years. Her design clients include The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Rockhurst University.

Here are some of her teleclasses:

Sell Your Stories for Children – Lisa Harkrader