Megan Hoyt is the win­ner of the 2017 SCB­WI Work in Progress Award and serves as Mem­ber­ship Coor­di­na­tor for the SCB­WI Car­oli­nas region. Megan’s debut pic­ture book, Bar­tal­i’s Bicy­cle (Feb­ru­ary 2021) has gar­nered many acco­lades, includ­ing being select­ed as a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award final­ist and placed on the Mas­ter List for the Texas Blue­bon­net Award. Megan has three more non-fic­tion pic­ture books forth­com­ing, also with Harper­Collins: The Great­est Song of All: How Vio­lin­ist Isaac Stern Unit­ed the World to Save Carnegie Hall, A Grand Idea: How William J. Wil­gus Cre­at­ed The Grand Cen­tral Ter­mi­nal, and Kati’s Tiny Mes­sen­gers: Dr. Kati Kariko and the Fight Against Covid-19. When she is not writ­ing, she loves to swim, walk beside the Cataw­ba riv­er, and read. She lives in Char­lotte, North Carolina.