Callie B. Dean is a writer, musician, and program evaluator living in Shreveport, LA. Her essays and poetry have appeared at Coffee + Crumbs, JMWW, Unbroken, HOOT Review, and Kindred Mom. In 2024, she won the Critic's Choice Award in Critical Mass 12 with an essay entitled "The Improbability of Fossils." She also plays violin in the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Baroque Artists of Shreveport, and Carrefour Collaborative Music Project. As a children's book author, Callie loves telling stories that spark curiosity, encourage creativity, and inspire action. Her first picture book, Marvelous Mistakes: Accidents that Made History (Beaming Books), will be published in 2026. She blogs as part of the STEM Tuesday team at From the Mixed Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors and has written curriculum materials for the Girl Scouts of the USA, BuildaBridge International, Palo Alto Networks, and more. She is represented by Karly Dizon of Fuse Literary.