Liz Bicknell is the executive editorial director of Candlewick Press (1997- ), where she edits picture books, middle-grade and young adult fiction, poetry, and biography. She edited M.T. Anderson’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party; the Caldecott Medal-winning This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen; and Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, which was a Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent winner, a Caldecott Honor Book, and a Sibert Honor Book.