Angie Manfredi is a librarian and writer who owns every season of Law and Order on DVD and sends over 150 handwritten Valentines every year. She has spent the last eleven years working directly with children and teens of all ages in a public library and now works in a library consulting on all things youth services. Fat and not sorry about it, she is a passionate advocate for literacy, diversity, and decolonizing the discourse surrounding children's literature.