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Sarah Cloots is a graduate of Rice University and the Columbia Publishing Course; as well as the New York University courses MBA Fundamentals, Fundamentals of Copyediting, and Writing for Children; and MediaBistro's YA Novel Writing. She was an editor at Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books, for four and a half years.

Sarah began her publishing career as a reporter for The Kingwood Observer newspaper and as an intern at Bloomsbury Children's Books. She has worked on books for young readers of all ages, from board books through young adult novels.

Titles that Sarah has edited include:

•	Do the Math: The Writing on the Wall, by Wendy Lichtman
•	Declare Yourself: Speak. Act. Connect. Vote. More than 50 Celebrated Americans Tell You Why
•	Organs!: How They Work, Fall Apart, and Can Be Replaced (Gasp!), by Nancy Winslow Parker
•	Forget-Her-Nots, by Amy Brecount White (Coming March 2010)
•	A Balloon for Isabel, by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Laura Rankin (Coming April 2010)

Sarah has served on the faculty of conferences around the country, including:

•	Children's Book Illustrators Group
•	Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature One-on-One Plus Conference
•	SCBWI-Arizona
•	SCBWI-Houston
•	SCBWI-Michigan
•	SCBWI-New England
•	SCBWI-New Jersey
•	SCBWI-Oregon
•	SCBWI-West/Central Upstate New York
•	SCBWI-Western Washington
•	SCBWI-Wisconsin