2019 November Self-Editing Workshop
Katherine Jacobs is a Senior Editor at Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan
Children’s Publishing Group. She works on
everything from picture books through YA, fiction and nonfiction. She has
worked with authors including Gary Schmidt, Mahogany Browne, Andrea Davis
Pinkney, Julie Berry, Shane Burcaw, and Jennifer Mathieu. She edited When
the Beat Was Born by Laban Carick Hill and illustrated by Theodore
Taylor III, which won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Katherine is a
graduate of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons
College in Boston, MA.
