Heather Ferranti Kinser ~ Picture Book Author
Inform, Delight, and Shine a Light!
Quick Bio ~ Heather Ferranti Kinser writes at the intersection of story, poetry, and nature from her home on the San Francisco Peninsula. She’s a former technical editor who now spends her days writing small stories—to make a big difference for kids!
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A Bit More Bio ~
    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 lots of notebooks filled with poems) and worked 15 years as a proofreader/copy editor for engineering firms. A love of rhythmic language and short writing forms eventually led her to writing picture books, and she's never looked back.
     Heather lives in the Bay Area with her family and several shelves full of picture books. Her debut book, SMALL MATTERS: The Hidden Power of the Unseen, offers readers (ages 4-9) a peek at nano-sized animal features, through a scanning electron microscope. It's available through all major distributors and lernerbooks.com. Check out this excerpt and see for yourself why small MATTERS!
     Stay tuned...two more picture books are on the way: NATURE IS A SCULPTOR (Millbrook Press) and IN A CAVE (Gnome Road Publishing).

Good News

  • Learn about weathering and erosion in this lyrical ode to rock formations ~ NATURE IS A SCULPTOR (Millbrook) arrives September 5, 2023 (pre-orders start May 15, 2023)
  • Journey into a cave system in this wonder-filled rhyming story ~ IN A CAVE (Gnome Road Publishing) will be released October 3, 2023
  • Recipient of 2021 Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award in the category "transitional nonfiction"—for SMALL MATTERS
  • SMALL MATTERS made Melissa Stewart's list My 10(ish) Favorite STEM books of 2020
  • My humorous historical poem "King Tut Tours His Tomb" was published in the February 2023 issue of Cricket magazine
  • 9th place finalist in the 2023 Kids' Choice KidLit Writing Contest, in the picture book category
  • Published in the poetry anthology Two Truths and a FIB, compiled by Bridget Magee of Wee Words for Wee Ones.
  • Featured on Lyrical Language Lab's 'Peek & Critique' video lesson.
  • 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!
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