Meet the Authors
Stan YogiStan Yogi is the coauthor, with Elaine Elinson, of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, MELUS, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and several anthologies. He is married to nonprofit administrator David Carroll and lives in Los Angeles.
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Arisa WhiteArisa White is a Cave Canem graduate poet and her work has been nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, California Book Awards, and Wheatley Book Awards. Her recent poetry collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor at Colby College. Visit her website at www.arisawhite.com.
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Laura AtkinsLaura Atkins is a children's book author and editor who helped to produce award-winning books at Children’s Book Press and Lee & Low Books. She taught creative writing at the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) in London, where she also received her M.A., and has an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to cowriting the Fighting for Justice series, Laura is the author of the picture book Sled Dog Dachshund. Passionate about diversity and equity in children’s books, Laura and her daughter live in Berkeley, California. Visit www.lauraatkins.com.
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