Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home. Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk, and she thinks when she was around five years old and reading Peter Pan she may have flown a little. Or maybe she just fell out of the tree. And scratched her foot on barbed wire and had to get a scary tetanus shot. But most certainly pixie dust was involved.
Megan's award-winning picture book biography, Bartali's Bicycle, came out in February 2021 with Harper Collins' Quill Tree Books. Three more non-fiction picture books quickly followed: The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to save Carnegie Hall, Kati's Tiny Messengers: Dr. Katalin Kariko and the Battle Against Covid 19, and A Grand Idea: How William J Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal (2024). Two more picture books are forthcoming.
Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019), and her first picture book, Hildegard's Gift, came out in 2014 with Paraclete Press. Tzimmes for Tzipporah is her first Jewish-themed picture book, with Apples and Honey Press, a division of Behrman House.
Megan speaks at SCBWI conferences and workshops for teachers in the US and Canada. When she is not writing for children, she tutors child actors on set—Lionsgate's Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (where she tried not to fawn over Judy Blume but may have failed), Showtime's Homeland series (where she sang happy birthday to her student while standing next to Claire Danes and managed not to faint), and Warner Bros' Wonder Woman 1984 (where she taught two of the cutest five-year-old stunt women ever!), among others.
She has a BA in English and History from Southern Methodist University and an MA in Theology from Regent University in Virginia. When she's not writing or teaching, Megan enjoys traveling to Italy and almost fainting in front of beautiful Renaissance art -- seriously, she had to clutch a railing) and spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren, and two feisty little dogs. You can follow her on social media at @meganhoytwrites.
She has a BA in English and History from Southern Methodist University and an MA in Theology from Regent University in Virginia. When she's not writing or teaching, Megan enjoys traveling to Italy and almost fainting in front of beautiful Renaissance art -- seriously, she had to clutch a railing) and spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren, and two feisty little dogs. You can follow her on social media at @meganhoytwrites.
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