Thanks for joining us in 2015-2016. Please join us in 2017 at the new site: www.reforemo.com.

Carrie Charley Brown, ReFoReMo Founder and Co-Coordinator

Carrie Charley Brown is the founder and co-coordinator of ReFoReMo, the Reading for Research Month blog & challenge. She eats, sleeps, and breathes picture books as a writer, professional critique mentor, and contributor on various blogs such as Writer's Rumpus. Carrie contributed as a 2014/2015 CYBILS fiction picture book panelist and donates a large part of her time to SCBWI North Texas as the Regional Advisor. She also produces kidlit videos and provides marketing services for authors and kidlit organizations. She has taught pre-k, kindergarten, first, and third grades. You can follow her writing journey right here on this site.

Kirsti Call, ReFoReMo Co-Coordinator

Kirsti Call reads, critiques and revises every day.  She is a member of various critique groups, and blogs for Writer's Rumpus and Children's Book Academy.  As the published author of The Raindrop Who Couldn't Fall and a homeschool mom, Kirsti coaches revision for children ages 5-18.  Her school visits involve interactive writing, singing, and of course, reading for research! Kirsti contributed as a 2015 CYBILS YA Fiction panelist and is proud to be the 2016 ReFoReMo co-coordinator. You can follow her journey at www.kirsticall.com.

Janie Reinart, ReFoReMo Facebook Group Administrator

Janie Reinart is a fellow with the National Writing Project, educator, author, poet and musical storyteller. She seeks ways of giving emerging writers of all ages a voice. Janie, dubbed Queen of Words by a student, encourages scribblers to play with words, and to tell their stories through prose and poetry. It is her mission to help others enjoy the sheer joy of writing and she practices this through her posts on the GROG blog. A proud mother of a veteran, Janie had the honor of collecting stories for the anthology, Love You More Than You Know Mothers’ Stories About Sending Their Sons and Daughters to War (Gray & Co., Publishers, 2009, eBook 2012). She blogs about our military heroes at www.loveyoumorethanyouknow.com.