Katie Booms Assarian
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Katie Booms Assarian
@commonpoem.com
Poet & picture book author illustrator 🖼
Parenting twin kindergarteners with a loud Armenian librarian 👯‍♀️ Episcopal Church Lady by day 🤷‍♀️

Member of 12x12 & SCBWI, 👀 for a pb critique group online or in West MI
I am not surprised, but I am delighted. Also vibing. From one of my current #pb #wip ... #kidlitchat
July 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Does anyone enjoy *eating* macarons? & Can you explain why, beyond "cute"? I admit I'm more nonprofit-office-leftovers-garbage-disposal than foodie but these are down there with supermarket brownie bites. At the local patisserie they're $5 honey lavender supermarket brownie bites. #hottake ?
April 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Late for #kidlitchat & up much too late - but in service to a DIY victory! 1st time filling my own #watercolor pans! Then went a little nuts mixing, to use up 3 pans I'd duplicated. Bc of course 2 were pthalos (tinting strength of tanks)... #illustratorproblems #didittomyself #hyperfocus
March 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Free bird!
I also went full extra...in the exact opposite direction... and did mine in watercolor. Thank you for the 2025 Bingo idea, @vbartles.bsky.social (& @krsilverstein.bsky.social ). Rad of you both to make shareables and invite playing along. #12x12pb #kidlitchat #writingcommunity #goals
January 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Bet you're impressed by my inner city Northern Lights. It really was dreamy - green strobes and pink puddles evanescent through the thinning crowns of trees. Even a fairly humble #auroraborealis turns me to #poetry at the beauty of our Earth.
October 11, 2024 at 2:48 AM
A #kidlitchat miracle! Not for the 1st time I just wove pretty deep in the interwebs iso a beloved #mg #fantasy novel title. I mostly remembered building a fairy ferris wheel from old bike tires and straws as a book report.Then *poof* #reddit takes me to 1999 Sarah-Kate in her hiking boots and slip
September 18, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I'm a creative tornado, who used to lose ideas on loose scraps til I found the perfect pocket-sized notebooks and retrained myself to keep ideas on separate pages and start new ones for each conference or season. Gamechanger. #kidlitchat
September 11, 2024 at 2:01 AM
It sure stormed up a storm across West Michigan overnight, and I have heard four separate sirens as I've typed this, but welcome to the stillness of an 1848 sanctuary largely uninterrupted by light. Serenity- one of the perks of being a church lady as your day job.
June 25, 2024 at 1:01 PM
I also believe in the snail mail card so they have some good mail among the junk, that they can peruse at their leisure. I'm a poet so I include a printed poem or two. Usually this one.
June 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
If you see this post a ghost. (Even if you do it 2 months from now. I love the spooks!) #kidlitart #wip
June 15, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Good for you! I bet they loved it! I hope those copies go flying off the shelf like our favorite page of the book. The one where, at bedtime last night, my daughter asked me if the boxes really have wings. ❤️ 🪽(Hope it's ok to post the pic.) Beautiful work.
June 11, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Excited to join this #kidlit community! Looking forward to meeting fabulous picture books & all the folks involved on the way. As I think about stories and art I love, I've made a sort of mantra: "Let's explore the heart of our common stories, in words and pictures." Monster art credit to my kiddos.
June 4, 2024 at 11:36 PM