Shining a Light on Small Things

Heather Ferranti Kinser ~ Picture Book Author

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     Heather started writing at the tender age of nine when she was bitten by a Jabberwocky, entered a state of literary amazement, and never fully recovered.
     She graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor's degree in English and worked 15 years as a proofreader/copy editor for engineering firms.
     Her debut picture book, SMALL MATTERS: The Hidden Power of the Unseen, is available through all major distributors and lernerbooks.com.
     SMALL MATTERS offers readers (ages 4-9) a peek at nano-sized animal features, through a scanning electron microscope. Check out this excerpt and see for yourself why small MATTERS!

Good News

  • My forthcoming picture book, IN A CAVE, will be released by Gnome Road Publishing in late 2023 or early 2024
  • A new lyrical, photo-illustrated nonfiction book will be released by Millbrook in the fall of 2023 (stay tuned for details)
  • Recipient of 2021 Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award in the category "transitional nonfiction"—for SMALL MATTERS
  • Featured on Lyrical Language Lab's 'Peek & Critique' video lesson.
  • SMALL MATTERS made Melissa Stewart's list My 10(ish) Favorite STEM books of 2020
  • Madness! Poetry Tournament "Authlete", four years running: Among 64 poets, I survived to compete in the "great eight" match-up in 2018 and made it to the "sweet sixteen" in March 2019
  • Placed in the 2019 Golden Haiku Competition, Washington D.C.
  • 4th-place in Susanna Leonard Hill's 2020 "Halloweensie" contest [October 2020]
  • 3rd-place in Susanna Leonard Hill's 2017 "Valentiny" contest [February 2017] and 8th-place in the 2017 "Holiday" contest [December 2017]

Guest Appearances
See the book trailer!