Tybre’ana Eaddy

Tybre’ana Eaddy writes for children who are still learning to name what they feel, and for adults who have stopped noticing what has been caring for them all along. Her debut picture book, Always There, Rocking Chair, takes an object that lives in the margins of a room—present, patient, rarely praised—and asks us to look at it again. The rocking chair becomes a symbol for every form of love that holds without being asked to.

Tybre’ana came to storytelling through caregiving spaces, close to children navigating big feelings with small vocabularies, and through years in event hospitality, where she learned that the details no one plans for are usually the ones people remember longest. Both worlds sharpened the same instinct in her: the belief that gratitude is not something you teach abstractly, but something you help people see by pointing at what is already there.

Her work keeps returning to one question: what has been supporting you that you have not yet stopped to thank? Always There, Rocking Chair is her first published answer.

In 2021, Tybre’ana received the HoCoPoLitSo Literary Award—recognition that arrived before her first book, which made it all the more meaningful. She had not yet published, and yet her writing had already found its way to people. That same year she received a Service Award for her contributions to her peers and community. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and a National Honor Society inductee.

Tyberiana, the educational brand she founded, is the natural extension of what the book begins. Through sensory products, curriculum, and immersive learning experiences, Tyberiana brings the themes of Always There, Rocking Chair off the page and into the hands of children who learn by touching, doing, and feeling their way into understanding. It is storytelling built for the whole child, not only the one who sits still and listens. This is the model Tybre’ana intends to carry forward with every book she writes: each new story will have a sensory world built around it, extending the reading experience into something children can hold, explore, and return to.

Tybre’ana was born in Georgia and relocated to Maryland as a teenager. She has kept, ever since, a poet’s attention to the fine details most people walk past, and a planner’s instinct for what makes an experience feel worth remembering. Away from the page, she finds joy in crafting miniatures, discovering new foods, and photographing the sky. She believes children’s literature is not a lesser genre—it is where some of the most honest human truths are first given shape.