Deirdre Langeland

Deirdre Langeland is a children’s book editor and writer with more than 20 years of experience. She has edited award-winning picture books, comics, middle-grade fiction, and narrative nonfiction, and works as a freelance editor and ghostwriter specializing in science and nature books for young readers.

Langeland is the author of The Cool Code (2022) and The Cool Code 2.0: The Switch Glitch (2023), a middle-grade graphic-novel series illustrated by Sarah Mai. Her other books include Octopus’ Den and Kangaroo Island. She lives in New York’s Hudson River Valley.