Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- Susan Tan ("Cilla Lee-Jenkins") (In conversation with Ellen Oh):
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Description of Pictures: Susan Tan, Ellen Oh -- A conversation about books for middle grade readers that highlight children from diverse families.
Susan Tan
Latest Title: Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story
Susan Tan is the author of “Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire” (winner of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Children’s Honor Award), “Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book is A Classic” and “Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story.” She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Williams College, her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and was the 2015 Gish Jen Emerging Writers Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain and is a post-doctoral teaching fellow at UMass, Boston.
Ellen Oh
Latest Title: Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Ellen Oh is co-founder and president of We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) and author of the YA fantasy trilogy, the Prophecy series, and the middle-grade novel, “The Spirit Hunters.” She was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Notable People of 2014. Oh resides in Bethesda, Md., with her husband and three children.
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2019 photos: Overnight trips this year:
(May, August, October, December) Four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con),
(July) My 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
(August) Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experie/nce rain in another state, and
(August) Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie.
Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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