In Conversation with Estelle Laure

About Estelle Laure

Estelle Laure is the author of ten published picture books and young adult novels, including acclaimed novel This Raging Light and Disney's City of Villains trilogy. She has been an Indie Next pick, a BEA Buzz Book author, a Junior Library Gold Standard Selection, A SLJ Reluctant and has worked for more than a dozen years as Senior Content Development Editor-at-Large with Folio Jr./Folio Literary Management, where she recently also became an agent. She’s taught workshops and retreats with SCBWI and contributed articles to Bloomsbury’s Writers & Artists, Uproxx, Huffington Post, and LitHub to name just a few. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Theatre Arts from New Mexico State University. She lives in Taos, New Mexico (the best place on earth) with her family, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages around the world. As an editor, she specializes in picture books, middle grade, and young adult, some of which have gone on to win awards, have been made into movies or TV shows, or have been bestsellers. She has also ghostwritten for Pixar and has IP projects in both the YA and adult spaces with Alloy Entertainment and Disney.