In preparing to offer writing workshops to incarcerated teens, I was inspired by the play Key Change, about women in prison in the UK.
My thoughts on self-publishing some of my blog pieces and other essays on writing, travel, culture, politics, and growing up on the outside looking in.
Michigan governor Rick Snyder won't go to jail for the poisoned water, but thousands of children in Flint might. And this is why we need Black Lives Matter.
If you knew that the best grade you could get in a course you really wanted to take was a C, would you still take the course?
Last week I reported on the first week that I led a workshop for middle school writers at New Voices School as part of the VCFA Young Writers Network. That…
The first part of my report on presenting at New Voices School in Brooklyn as part of the new VCFA Young Writers Network.
The role of independent bookstores in the community, which includes being a safe space for all.
Thinking about the themes of Surviving Santiago in the wake of two incidents of political violence in the U.S. in the past week.
As part of the YA Story Sisters, I'm giving away a book I'm thankful for as well as one of my own, and I explain why I'm thankful.
My three presentations at the NCTE conference and ALAN workshop in Minneapolis, all focusing on aspects of diversity in books for young readers.