Callie B. Dean is a community artist and data storyteller living in Shreveport, LA. She is the author of the prose poetry chapbook Metadata (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and two forthcoming picture books, which are scheduled to launch in 2026 and 2027. Her essays and poetry have appeared at Coffee + Crumbs, JMWW, Whale Road Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and more. In 2024, she won the Critic's Choice Award in Critical Mass 12 with an essay entitled "The Improbability of Fossils." She went on to develop an interactive installation of data visualization and poetry, titled "Data is Poetry," which exhibited at Artspace Shreveport in 2025. Callie serves as an editorial assistant at Literary Mama and blogs with the STEM Tuesday team at From the Mixed Up Files . . . of Middle-Grade Authors. She has also written curriculum materials for the Girl Scouts of the USA, BuildaBridge International, and Palo Alto Networks, among others. With a master's degree in community arts, Callie has more than a decade of experience in leading and evaluating nonprofit programs, with a particular love for STEM and arts education. Outside of writing, she serves as the director of applied research in the LSUS Institute for Nonprofit Administration and Research. She also plays violin in the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Baroque Artists of Shreveport, and Carrefour Collaborative Music Project. Callie is represented by Karly Dizon of Fuse Literary. Follow her online at calliebdean.com.