The American Booksellers Association has announced the names of the authors and speakers who will appear next month at Children's Institute 2025 in Portland, Ore.
The group of keynote speakers includes Samira Ahmed, author of The Singular Life of Aria Patel; Mac Barnett, the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and author of Twenty Questions; em dickson, author of Beyond They/Them; Petra Lord, author of Queen of Faces; Claribel Ortega, author of the Witchlings series; Nate Stevenson, author of Scarlet Morning; Mychal Threets, author of I'm So Happy You're Here!; and Lee Wind, author of Like That Eleanor.
The complete list of speakers and authors can be found here.