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Nancy Garden Visited Western Washington University Via Skype

Nancy Garden had a Skype session with Kristin Mahoney’s Young Adult Literature class. The students, Teacher and Nancy felt the visit was a success and Nancy added:

“The students had prepared questions in advance, mostly about my novel, ANNIE ON MY MIND, LGBT-YA literature in general, and writing techniques,and the teacher had given me a list of 22 of them, many of which included more than one question, the night before. I think we covered nearly all of them. I enjoyed answering them and we could easily have spent twice the length of time.”

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New GLSEN Survey Finds California Schools Unsafe for LGBT Students

Findings from the GLSEN 2011 National School Climate Survey demonstrate that California schools were not safe for most lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) secondary school students. Read more…

LGBT Writers in Schools Spotlight Author

If you’re a teacher or community leader looking for a poet to visit your class in person or via Skype, please contact Monica Carter at mcarter@lambdaliterary.org.

Spotlight Author – Joy Ladin

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Joy Ladin, Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College of Yeshiva University, is the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. Her memoir, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award, and a Forward Fives winner. She has published six books of poetry: recently published The Definition of Joy, Forward Fives award winner Coming to Life, Lambda Literary Award finalist Transmigration Alternatives to History and The Book of Anna, (all from Sheep Meadow Press), and Psalms (Wipf & Stock). Her work has been recognized with a Fulbright Scholarship and a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Her poems and essays have appeared in many periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and North American Review, and has been recognized with a Fulbright Scholarship. In addition to Yeshiva University, she has taught in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University (as Fulbright Poet-in-Residence), Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Her Works:

Through the Door of Life

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders

University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN: 9780299287306 2012

*Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography or Memoir

*Finalist, Transgender Nonfiction, Lambda Literary Awards

*Selection, Over the Rainbow Project, GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association

Definition of Joy

The Definition of Joy

Collection of poetry

Sheep Meadow Press

ISBN: 9781937679057

Coming to Life

Coming to Life