Sean Buvala has been working in storytelling and communication since 1986. It started by accident, in a classroom of squirrelly 8th graders. Somewhere in the middle of that, both the kids and Sean got hooked on what a well-told story can actually do to a room.
From classrooms to boardrooms, from workshops for salt miners to consulting with PhDs in pharmaceuticals, Sean has told and taught stories in more industries than he expected to end up in. He’s run a nonprofit and is currently the publisher and chief janitor at The Small-Tooth-Dog Publishing Group LLC.
As an author, Sean writes the kind of children’s books his own kids loved growing up: stories with a little strangeness in them, built to be read out loud more than once. Small-Tooth-Dog is his way of keeping that going for a new set of readers. His books include The Gecko is On the Cover, The Moon Was Not Happy, and Salt and the Sea. He works closely with illustrators on every book, treating the picture book as a two-person job, not a manuscript with pictures added later.
He makes his home in Arizona with his wife and four young adult kids.
When he’s not writing for kids, Sean spends his time teaching other authors and speakers how to build a business around their work: the communication skills and the practical stuff nobody tells you about in writing school. He’s been on hundreds of stages himself, and that experience is most of what he teaches from.
