The Wisconsin Schools Digital Library Consortium (WSDLC) has its annual meeting this Thursday, March 18th at 2:30 pm and our speaker is author and curator, Cynthia Leitich Smith!
Cynthia Leitich Smith is
the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling author
of books for young readers, including HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won the
American Indian Library Association’s Youth Literature Award. Her 2021
releases are the middle grade anthology ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL
STORIES FOR KIDS and novel SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA.
She
is also the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at
HarperCollins Children’s Books, and serves as the Katherine Paterson
Inaugural Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for
Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cynthia is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and lives in Austin, Texas.
To attend, please use this registration link:
A huge thank you to OverDrive for sponsoring this event!
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