As publisher of the award winning imprint, Laura Geringer Books, editor, story advisor, teacher and writer, Laura Geringer Bass has collaborated with many celebrated authors and artists in the field of children’s books. She has worked with numerous publishing houses and entertainment studios including HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin, Hyperion/Disney, Dreamworks, Fox, and CBS.  She develops picture books, illustrated novels and YAs. She teaches writing workshops privately and at the JCC and is a faculty member of New York Writer’s Workshop (NYWW), an instructor for Prison Writes serving teens at risk through New York City's Administration for Children’s Services' Close to Home program (ACS), and a mentor for Girls Write Now.  She teaches her workshops at Stonybrook, Southampton in the popular Summer Writing Conferences as a member of a stellar faculty that includes authors Meg Wolitzer, Fred Tuten and poet laureate Billy Collins. This October 2025, her short story, “Mermaid of Longnook” will be published in Issue 30 of “The Common.”

Laura is the author of many books for children including the bestselling A THREE HAT DAY, an ALA Notable Book illustrated by Arnold Lobel, a Top Ten featured selection on LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow. Her YA fantasy, SIGN OF THE QIN, an ALA Best Book was shortlisted for the Printz award. MYTH MEN, her popular series of graphic novels was adapted by CBS as an animated TV show. Her love of story informs her service on the board of First Book, a non-profit organization that has delivered over 200 million books distributed to children in need. Her novel for middle graders, The Girl With More Than One Heart, was published by Abrams in April 2018. Follow Laura on Facebook here.