Margie Markarian

[excerpted from author's website]
For many years Margie was a children's book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, where she focused on developing books for beginning readers in the Green Light Readers line. Prior to her career in children's book publishing, Margie worked in both magazine and educational publishing. She wrote frequently for classroom magazines published by Weekly Reader and Scholastic on a variety of topics, ranging from health, fitness and emotional well-being to careers, college planning, and friendship. She was also a regular contributor to numerous print and digital products for parents and teachers including American Baby, Healthy Children, Parents, Moms on Call (Woman's Day), Scholastic's Online New Teacher Survival Guide and PTO Today.

Margie has a passion for instilling a love of reading and writing in children. Within her community, she spent five years running creative storytelling events for children in grades K-5 through the Reading Is Fundamental program. In addition, she planned and presented writing workshops to help elementary school students develop, research, and write editions of the Boston Sunday Globe Fun Pages, a newspaper supplement for kids.