Angela Lucille Longo is a narrative fiction picture book writer. She draws inspiration from her own experiences. She loves writing books about creativity, friendship, social issues, nature, and anything spooky or humorous. Through her stories, she hopes to inspire a life-long love for reading.
Angela is a member of the 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge and SCBWI. She is the facilitator of two critique groups.
Although she now types her stories, she first began writing on a fold-up Barbie phone with a notepad and a golf pencil. Unfortunately, her toddler noodle writing was never translated to English. In second grade, she remembers listening to Nancy Tafuri read her beloved picture book, I Love You Little One, and being inspired to one day become a published picture book author, too. In seventh grade, Angela won a town-wide poetry contest and had a poem published in a regional poetry magazine. In high school, she won several Scholastic Gold Key Awards and was published in her school’s literary magazine, Blutopia. Her love for creative writing never waned, in college she double majored in Psychology and Exercise and Sport Science at UNC Chapel Hill, then went on to earn a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Boston University.
Beyond reading and writing, Angela loves gardening, baking, crafting, hiking, and ice skating. If she could live anywhere, she would live on a few acres near a big city (where it’s sunny during the day and rains at night). She would have pet alpacas, grow pomelos, and have a treehouse studio.