KRIBS, ELIZABETH (LIZ)

ELIZABETH (LIZ) KRIBS, Associate Publisher, Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, has worked in book publishing for twenty years, starting as an intern at Tundra Books. For many of those years, she was the managing editor at McClelland & Stewart, editing non-fiction adult books and managing the workflow of the editorial group. She fully embraced her inner child in 2012, when she moved across imprints to join the young readers team. Liz currently acquires and edits a select list of books that include picture books, informational picture books and illustrated non-fiction. Some of the books she has worked on include the Polite Predators chapter book series by Rachel Poliquin and Kathryn Durst; Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Skinnamarink, illustrated by Qin Leng; Butterflies Are Pretty . . . Gross! by Rosemary Mosco and Jacob Souva; and On the Trapline by David A. Robertson and Julie Flett.