Megan Hoyt

​ Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home. She devoured Beverly Cleary’s books there, and Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk. She is a National Jewish Book Award finalist, the winner of the 2017 SCBWI Work in Progress Award and serves as Membership Coordinator for the SCBWI Carolinas region. Megan's debut picture book biography, Bartali's Bicycle, came out in February 2021 with Harper Collins Children's Books' new imprint, Quill Tree Books. Two more non-fiction titles came next, The Greatest Song of All, Kati's Tiny Messengers, and A Grand Idea, also with Quill Tree. Tzimmes for Tzipporah, her first fiction picture book recently launched, with Apples and Honey Press. Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019), and her graded readers, The Lying Lion and Clara O'Hara, Private Eye (TCM) will be available soon. Her first picture book, Hildegard's Gift, came out in 2014 with Paraclete Press. Megan has a bachelor’s in English and History from Southern Methodist University and a master’s in Theology from Regent University. She is a certified teacher, whose interests range from Medieval and Renaissance History to Theology to 19th century children's literature. Megan lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, son (three other children have grown and flown), and a bichon frise named Fitzwilliam Darcy. In her spare time, she likes to swim, ride horses, and ice skate.