Kristyn Crow

Kristyn Crow is a children's picture book author with numerous titles including the ZOMBELINA series (Bloomsbury), SKELETON CAT (Scholastic) and ALL ABOARD THE MOONLIGHT TRAIN (Doubleday). She has received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, and won a blue ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's books (BCCB). She was a Utah Book Award Nominee, and her book, ZOMBELINA DANCES THE NUTCRACKER won the 2016 AML Picture Book Award. Her books ZOMBELINA and ZOMBELINA SCHOOL DAYS were featured in the New York Times.

Kristyn has been a keynote speaker, instructor, faculty member, and repeat presenter for many events and organizations including the BYU Symposium on Books for Young Readers, Provo Library Family Literacy Symposium, the Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop, Children’s Literature Association of Utah, FanX Comicon, Provo Children’s Book Festival, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, LDS Storymakers, and the Utah Humanities Council. She was the 2017 Recipient of The Women In the Arts Recognition Award presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution, where she gave the keynote address.

Kristyn is the screenwriter for The Accidental Astronauts, a Clark Planetarium dome theater movie that teaches children about the Earth, moon, and sun. The movie is playing at 21 planetariums internationally. She loves to visit schools around the country, putting on assemblies where children participate in a rhythm symphony with the refrain of her books. She also directs an after school program for at-risk children.