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The Poetry of YA Prose: Novelist-Poets at Work
Saturday, March 26, 2022
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
YA authors who are also poets will discuss the many ways the craft of poetry has informed their fiction. Attendees will learn the relationship between poetry and prose, how poetry can benefit prose, and how these authors see the specific relationship between poetry and YA, as well as how authors navigate each genre’s community.
Participants
Shana Youngdahl teaches writing at Lindenwood University. She is the author of the novels As Many Nows As I Can Get and A Catalog of Burnt Objects (Forthcoming, Dial/PenguinTeen), as well as the poetry collection History, Advice and Other Half-Truths.
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and painter. She is the author of the poetry collection Dirt and Honey and the chapbook Tales from the House of Vasquez. Her debut YA novel is Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything.
Brynne Rebele-Henry has two books of poetry: Fleshgraphs and Autobiography of a Wound, which won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is also the author of the novel Orpheus Girl.
Kit Frick is a novelist, poet, and MacDowell fellow. A senior editor at Black Lawrence Press, she holds an MFA from Syracuse University. Kit is the author of several YA novels including I Killed Zoe Spanos and Very Bad People, as well as the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs.
Guadalupe García McCall is the author of four award-winning YA novels. She is the recipient of the Pura Belpré Author Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, and the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award. She teaches English at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.
