Stefani Boutelier, Ph.D. is an associate professor of education at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI. Most of her K-12 teaching was at the secondary level in Southern California. She has published work in both academic and creative genres. She teaches graduate research courses, literacy …
Kate Currie currently lives in South Carolina where she splits her time between teaching high school English, chairing the English department and working as an Associate Athletic Director. She is a “Love of Teaching” award recipient and has a passion for building inclusive and relevant …
Crag Hill’s research focuses on the production and consumption of various literatures by/for adolescents, in and out of school contexts: young adult literature (The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature: Coming of Age. Routledge, 2014; Critical Explorations of Canonical Young Adult Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the …
Jennifer Jacobson is the author of award-winning children’s books including Small as an Elephant(IRA Young Adult’s Choice, Parents’ Choice Gold Award), Paper Things (ILA Social Justice Award, NTCE Charlotte Huck Honorable Mention)and The Dollar Kids illustrated by Ryan Andrews (ABA IndieNext List and Bank Street …
Lauryl and Lizzy are preservice teachers. lives in Edmond, Oklahoma and is currently a junior studying Secondary Education: English at Oklahoma State University. She plans to become an English teacher at the high school level upon graduation. When she is not in class (or on …
Gayle Sands started teaching middle school English as a second career at 42. She taught ELA for 25 years, and is now enjoying a a stint as reading specialist. She had a very “interesting” (aka challenging) household with a messy husband, three (now grown) children, …
Kari Anne Holt is the award-winning author of many middle grade novels in verse including Redwood & Ponytail, Knockout, House Arrest, and Rhyme Schemer. She is also the other of several middle grade fantasy and sci-fi novels, as well as the picture book, I Wonder, …
Inspiration Music is the source of beauty, memories, and emotions. When I was experiencing a dark and depressing period of my life, I turned to poetry and music for healing. Find something in music or lyrics that bring you peace and healing to write a …
Inspiration In the vignette “Hairs” from House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros reveals many interesting details about the narrator’s family, especially her mother, through a discussion of one physical trait: hair. Her first paragraph describes the hair of the narrator’s father and the hair of …
Inspiration Etheree Taylor Armstong, an Arkansas poet, created a simple poetic form called appropriately Etheree. An etheree consists of ten lines with each line’s syllabication increasing by one. Line 1 begins with one syllable, line two has two syllables, line three has three syllables, etc. …