Press Kit

Short Bio

Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author of 11 picture books and board books, including While We’re Here, Everybody in the Red Brick Building, and Nell Plants a Tree, and So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story. She lives in Austin, TX with her family. 

Longer Bio

Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author of Everybody in the Red Brick Building, illustrated by Oge Mora; the board books One Big Day and Hands On!, both illustrated by Alea Marley; and Nell Plants a Tree, illustrated by Daniel Miyares.

Her book Everybody in the Red Brick Building was named an Ezra Jack Keats Award Honoree, a Kids’ Indie Next pick, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Booklist 2021 Editors’ Choice Book. Nell Plants a Tree received 5 starred reviews and won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Golden Kite Award and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award.

Originally from Houston, Anne earned a degree in theatre from Washington University in St. Louis and penned a number of short plays that have been produced around the country. She lives in Austin, TX with her family.