About

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Anastasia Suen (anna-STAY-zhuh SOON) is the author (and ghostwriter) of 400+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults. She began working as a developmental editor in 1999.


Anastasia Suen is the author (and ghostwriter) of 400+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults. Her publishers include:

  • Abdo
  • Albert Whitman
  • Amicus
  • Argosy
  • Bearport
  • Bebop Books
  • Brown Books Publishing Group
  • Celebration Press
  • Charlesbridge
  • Chronicle
  • Colorbridge
  • Compass Media
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • HarperCollins
  • Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
  • Kane Miller
  • Lee and Low Books
  • Lerner
  • Libraries Unlimited
  • Mastery Education
  • National Geographic School Publishing
  • Picture Window Books
  • Pomelo Books
  • Quarasan Group
  • Red Line Editorial
  • Riverdeep
  • The Rosen Publishing Group
  • Rourke Educational Media
  • Sadlier-Oxford
  • Santillana USA
  • Scholastic
  • Scott Foresman Addison Wesley
  • Six Red Marbles
  • SRA
  • StarWalk Kids Media
  • Stone Arch Books
  • Sundance
  • Viking Children’s Books
  • The Wright Group
  • Writer’s Digest Books

Consultant

Anastasia Suen began working in publishing in 1995 as a children’s literature consultant. That led to working as a developmental editor in 1999 and writing for Booklist in 2004. Consulting clients include educational publishers and magazines:

  • Beyond Words Publishing
  • Big Thought
  • Book Links
  • Booklist
  • Brown Books Publishing Group
  • Children’s Book Insider
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • Curriculum Associates
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Lee & Low Books
  • LibrarySparks
  • National Geographic School Publishing
  • QBS
  • Rosen Publishing Group
  • Sadlier-Oxford
  • Scholastic Teacher

All consulting work is confidential (with or without a nondisclosure agreement).

See Anastasia Suen’s resume on LinkedIn.

Teacher

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Anastasia Suen’s fascination with books led to a career in education. She taught kindergarten ESL, first, fifth, and sixth grades in Los Angeles before her children were born.

After her first books were published she began teaching adults: teacher inservice for Staff Development for Educators, children’s literature at the University of North Texas, and writing at Southern Methodist University.

Throughout the year, Anastasia Suen mentors adults who want to write a children’s book with one-to-one critiques on Zoom.

She also teaches two writing workshops (the Intensive Picture Book Workshop and the Children’s Novel Workshop) with SIX 30-minute one-to-one Zoom meetings to help writers develop their books.



In the K-5 STEM Author Visit, students will relive the first moon landing, learn how to make a skyscraper, and see electricity move from the power plant to the city with 3 STEM picture book poem read-alouds. Then they will learn how a book is made and ask questions.

Check her author visit page for free DIY mini-comics and mini-comics that answer questions about her books.

Looking for writing lessons for children? Visit the Small Poems #VerseThursday writing prompts for classrooms and libraries site.

Reluctant readers in grades 3-8 can use the 10 hi-lo readers theatre sports scripts and classroom-tested graphic organizers for writing expository paragraphs, narrative scenes, and action-reaction poems.


Still have questions? Contact Anastasia Suen.
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