PJ McIlvaine is a co-host and founding member of #PBPitch, the premiere Twitter pitch party for picture book creators. PJ has been published in numerous outlets including The New York Times and Newsday, and is a regular contributor for The Children’s Book Insider newsletter (paid firewall), writing about the path to publication and interviews with established and debut kid lit authors. Also, PJ’s critically acclaimed Showtime original family movie MY HORRIBLE YEAR with Mimi Rogers, Karen Allen, and Eric Stoltz, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.
A born and bred New Yorker, PJ lives in Eastern Long Island with her family, Princess Luna (a French Bulldog), and Sasha the Psycho Cat who has more than nine lives. PJ is distantly related to the French writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir.
