Renée M. LaTulippe is the author of the poetry comics collection Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! (Charlesbridge, 2025), the poem picture book The Crab Ballet (Abrams, 2022), and a forthcoming free verse picture book with Creative Editions. She also has poems published in many anthologies including A Universe of Rainbows (ed. Matt Forrest Esenwine), If I Could Choose a Best Day (eds. Latham, Waters), 40 Poems for 40 Weeks (ed. David L. Harrison), No World Too Big (eds. Metcalf, Bradley, Dawson), Night Wishes and School People (ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins), National Geographic’s The Poetry of US and Book of Nature Poetry (ed. J. Patrick Lewis), One Minute Till Bedtime (ed. Kenn Nesbitt), Poems Are Teachers (ed. Amy Ludwig VanDerwater), ThankU: Poems of Gratitude (ed. Miranda Paul), A World Full of Poems (ed. Sylvia Vardell), several editions of The Poetry Friday Anthology books (ed. Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong), and others.
In the educational market, Renée is the co-founder of the homeschool curricula company, Storylark Road Publishing. She also co-authored nine award-winning decodable readers (Moonbeam Children’s Books Silver Award, Mom’s Choice Gold Awards) and a collection of poetry for All About Learning Press, where she was writer and editor for sixteen years.
Renée developed and teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab, provides free lessons and Peek & Critique sessions for children’s writers on her YouTube channel, and maintains the archives of her children’s poetry blog at NoWaterRiver.com. She earned her BFA in acting/directing from Marymount Manhattan College and her MA in English Education from NYU; taught English, theater arts, and public speaking in NYC; and is a lifelong theater person. Originally from upstate New York, she lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.
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Renée M. LaTulippe is the author of Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! (Charlesbridge, 2025), The Crab Ballet (Abrams, 2022), and a forthcoming free verse picture book with Creative Editions, and has poems published in many anthologies including A Universe of Rainbows (ed. Matt Forrest Esenwine), If I Could Choose a Best Day (eds. Latham, Waters), 40 Poems for 40 Weeks (ed. David L. Harrison), No World Too Big (eds. Metcalf, Bradley, Dawson), Night Wishes and School People (ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins), National Geographic’s The Poetry of US, One Minute Till Bedtime (ed. Kenn Nesbitt), Poems Are Teachers (ed. Amy Ludwig VanDerwater), ThankU: Poems of Gratitude (ed. Miranda Paul), and A World Full of Poems (ed. Sylvia Vardell).
Renée developed and teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab, provides free lessons for children’s writers on her YouTube channel, and maintains the archives of her children’s poetry blog at NoWaterRiver.com. She is also the co-founder of the homeschool curricula company, Storylark Road Publishing.
She earned her BFA in acting/directing from Marymount Manhattan College and her MA in English Education from NYU; taught English, theater arts, and public speaking in NYC; and is a lifelong theater person. Originally from upstate New York, she lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.
Renée M. LaTulippe is the author of Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! (Charlesbridge, 2025), the poem picture book The Crab Ballet (Abrams, 2022), and a forthcoming free verse picture book with Creative Editions, and has poems published in many anthologies including A Universe of Rainbows, If I Could Choose a Best Day, No World Too Big, Night Wishes, School People, The Poetry of US, One Minute Till Bedtime, Poems Are Teachers, ThankU: Poems of Gratitude, and A World Full of Poems.
Renée developed and teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab and provides free lessons for children’s writers on her YouTube channel. She is also the co-founder of the homeschool curricula company, Storylark Road Publishing. She has a BFA in acting/directing and an MA in English Education. Originally from upstate New York, Renée lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.
Renée M. LaTulippe is the author of Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics!, The Crab Ballet, and a forthcoming free verse picture book with Creative Editions, and has poems published in many anthologies.
She is the founder of The Lyrical Language Lab and the Peek&Critique YouTube channel, and co-founder of Storylark Road Publishing. She lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.
Renée M. LaTulippe writes poetry, picture books, and verse novels and is the founder of the Lyrical Language Lab. She lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.