April Halprin Wayland (born 1954) is an American children's and young adult author, poet, and teacher.
She worked for the Rand Corporation and was the governess for a Hollywood celebrity before starting a company called Positive Education, Inc. with Elizabeth Howland.
She studied with children's authors Ruth Lercher Bornstein, Sonia Levitin, Susan Goldman Rubin, and many others.
For twelve years she studied with children's poet Myra Cohn Livingston.
Wayland's poems have been included in numerous anthologies and magazines and have won multiple awards from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.