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.