Louise May is Vice President/Editorial Director of Lee & Low Books, independent publisher of diverse books for young readers. She has been with the company for more than thirteen years and oversees the Lee & Low trade imprint as well as Bebop Books, the company’s educational imprint. Ms. May specializes in illustrated books at all age levels and has edited many award-winning titles by notable authors and illustrators of children’s books, including Ted and Betsy Lewin, Lee Bennett Hopkins, R. Gregory Christie, Pat Mora, Susan L. Roth, George Ancona, Ed Young, and Marilyn Singer. In 2000 she helped found Lee & Low’s annual New Voices Award for first-time writers of color, which has brought the company—and the children’s book world—several talented new authors. Before Lee & Low, Ms. May was with Mondo Publishing, where she developed the company’s inaugural lists of trade books and educational materials as well as several subsequent lists, and with the now defunct Random House School Division.