Dr. Benette Whitmore's extensive publishing accomplishments includes six picture books for young children (Random House, Barron's Educational Series), a young adult novel (Bloomsbury USA), a children's play performed in the Boston area, an international PBS television show (Pappyland), adult fiction (The North American Review), and a screenplay for a horror film drawing attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women. She is writer/director/producer for a PBS podcast for kids titled, Funky Foodies, Inc .
Benette works in higher education and holds a master's degree in Public Communications Management and a doctoral degree in Cultural Foundations of Education, both from Syracuse University. She is on the faculty at SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry in Syracuse, NY, where she teaches courses in science education and creative responses to the environment. She was instrumental in launching a digital storytelling studio at the college.
Benette is represented by...Jen NewensSenior Literary AgentMartin Literary Management