Jean Ferruzola is a writer focused on stories for young adult readers. Her work often centers on family, memory, and the ways heritage shapes identity. As a first-generation Ecuadorian-American, she is drawn to narratives that explore how the past echoes across generations. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Brevity, The Offing, and […]
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Helen K. Thomas is from Seattle, WA by way of Lagos, Nigeria. She writes Young Adult fiction that illuminates the interiority of black girls as they navigate joy and pain and love and loss while living in the Pacific Northwest. Recently, she was part of the inaugural Tin House YA Fiction Workshop and is thrilled to […]
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Jeffrey Lee Cheatham II is an author from Seattle, WA. Since 2014, he has self-published three children’s books—The Family Jones and The Eggs of Rex, Why is Jane so Mad?, and Hi Blue Sky—to increase positive representation of children of color in books. In 2016, Jeffrey created the Seattle Urban Book Expo, with the mission […]
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