Moderators

Kimberley Chiu is a librarian with Singapore’s National Library Board. She works in collection development, selecting and purchasing books for children and teens. She is deeply interested in role that pleasure and delight play in developing childhood literacy, and in how Singaporean culture affects readers' and librarians' relationships with books and with the library. In her spare time, Kimberley enjoys cooking, petting cats, and playing Stardew Valley. She writes songs, is working on a novel, and tries to read a little every day.  

As sectoral representative for illustrators at PBBY, Liza Flores is one of the leading children’s book illustrators in the Philippines. Her books, The Secret is in the Soil (2012), and Ang Maliit na Kalabaw (2021) have been included in the National Children’s Book Award Best Reads for 2012-2013 and 2020-2021. She is a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK), the Philippines’ first and only organisation of illustrators for children. She mentors illustrators from different countries through Room to Read, an international nonprofit organisation. Liza is also a graphic designer. She designed Karapat Dapat (2018), which was included in The White Ravens list in 2020.