Erinn Batykefer (she/her)

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Erinn is a writer and a librarian based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She has worked in and around libraries since she was fifteen, shelving books, writing grants, hosting storytimes and writing workshops, developing print and digital collections, and building collaborative programming and community partnerships from both sides of the desk. She is the author of several titles, including Incubating Creativity at your Library: A Sourcebook for Connecting Communities (ALA Editions, 2019) and The Artist's Library: a field guide (Coffee House Press, 2014), both co-authored with Laura Damon-Moore. When she's not sparking creative conversations among library professionals, Erinn is at work on a novel and a new collection of poems.

Laura Damon-Moore (she/her)

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Laura is a librarian and artist with an extremely lower-case "a". She is a Library Strategist & Consultant working at WiLS, mostly based in Wisconsin, USA. Laura has worked in small and large communities as a youth librarian and in community engagement and public services. She is co-founder of the Library as Incubator Project (2010-2017) and co-author of the books, Incubating Creativity at Your Library: A Sourcebook for Connecting with Communities (ALA Editions, 2019) and The Artist’s Library: a field guide (Coffee House Press, 2014).

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