A Sudden Crackdown
The crackdown on books and freedom of expression in schools and libraries is real, frightening, and moving at pandemic speed.
My First #KidsNeedMentors School Visit!
Talking to fourth graders about my writing, with my Lego town behind me.
Translation and Writing Historical Fiction: #WorldKidLit Month
How my work as a translator has helped me address some of the challenges of writing a novel set in a very different place and time.
MOONWALKING Has a Cover!
Thrilled for my cover of Moonwalking, which captures the art, music, and energy of 1980s Brooklyn.
Not Your Superhero
I challenge the Western notions of character agency and the individualistic superhero at a time when individualism has excluded too many and failed us all.
“Nothing About Us Without Us”
A preview of upcoming panels where I talk about the importance of #OwnVoices books featuring autistic and other disabled protagonists.
Solidarity Light Show
Yesterday, August 31, 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Gdańsk Agreements, which allowed Solidarity to become the first independent trade union in Communist Poland. The moment…
A Deadline and a Pandemic
Sunday night, I wrote "THE END" on the draft of my part of the verse novel MOONWALKING, the story of an unlikely interracial friendship in Brooklyn in 1982 from my…
A Change in Plans
The cancellation of my travels to Portugal this year and what I'll be doing instead.