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, also known as "The Sugar Lady," is a professor, poet and performer whose books include Cracking Walnuts & Other Goodies and Tucked In Real Tight. 3/24, 10 am and 1 pm
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is a professional Appalachian storyteller, storymaker and storykeeper throughout Albemarle and surrounding counties. 3/25, 1:30 pm.
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is an author, storyteller and creative arts educator. She is the winner of a Parents Choice Award for her book, Curriculum of Love, and is the Continuing Studies Coordinator of the Read-To-Me program at the UVA Under Fives Study Center. 3/25, 1:30 pm.
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holds an MFA from VCU and has published poetry and essays in The Cream City Review, The Southern Anthology and other literary magazines. She teaches writing at VCU and at The Hand Workshop Art Center. 3/22, 1:30 pm.
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is the Artistic Director of Charlottesville's Old Michie Theatre, a puppet and children's theater now in its twelfth year. She studied at Juilliard, Brown University and has a Master of Arts from the University of Virginia. Her love of puppetry began while she was in college and continued while at the Discovery Theatre of the Smithsonian Institution.
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is a historic impersonator with the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. 3/22, 10:45 am.
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, LCSW, is a clinical faculty member at UVA, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Under Fives Study Center. She has coordinated Read to.Me and Motheread/Fatheread programs throughout Charlottesville. 3/25, 1:30 pm.
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lives in Washington, DC with her writer-mother, her scientist-father, her younger brother, a baby sister and three cats. Akaela is 11 years old and in the 6th grade at Stuart Hobson Middle School, a public school in the nation's capital.
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is the author of six books including Hoosiers and Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports. His book It’s Our World, Too! won the 1993 Christopher Award. He is a staff member of The Nature Conservancy. 3/24, 1:30 pm. Plus school visits.
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is a freelance writer and poet, and is currently the Robert Francis Trust Poet-in-Residence. He earned an MFA from UVa. His grandfather co-wrote a number of songs with Pete Seeger, which led to his collaboration on Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book. 3/21, 7 pm.
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, author of Red Scarf Girl, was born in China and now lives in California. The book is a memoir of her family’s strife during the Cultural Revolution in China. 3/21, 4 pm. School visits.
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is the author of the play, The Land Without Liberty. A professor and playwright at Northern Kentucky University, he has written over 18 plays, including The Middle of Yesterday and Lifelines. 3/25, 3 pm.
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is the host of "Tell Us a Tale," Central Virginia’s only two-hour children’s radio program. He works in storytelling, improvisation and production of his own comedic radio plays and is currently co-authoring a book on the television castaway, Gilligan, with UVa Darden School professor Ed Freeman. 3/21, 7 pm.
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taught creative drama and children’s theater at Broome County Community College in Binghamton, New York. She has taught in elementary school and gifted programs, and volunteers in Charlottesville Recreation Department’s "Kids on the Block" puppetshows. 3/22
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is the author of the novel Where This Lake Is and regularly reviews books for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is a graduate of the creative writing program at VCU, where he currently teaches writing.
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is a poet, fiction writer, teacher and children’s book author. Her poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Southern Poetry Review, Iris and other journals. Molasses Man is her first picture book. 3/24, 11 am, school visits.
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, the author of many heralded novels for young people, has received a Newbery Honor citation, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery, and a National Book Award nomination. She lives in New York. 3/21, 7 pm.
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received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from UT Austin. She teaches social studies and language arts at William and Mary. 3/25, 3 pm.
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, author of Dead Ball Foul, is a high school junior who had her first hardback mystery published in 2000. She has another scheduled for 2001. school visits plus, 3/22, 6 pm.
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, author of Go Home! The True Story of James the Cat, was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She is married to author and professor Philip B. Meggs, and they have two grown children. 3/21 10 am.
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- An internationally published science and health writer, Dia L. Michels has now expanded her skills into the arena of children's literature. Michels has written for People, Parenting, Family Fun, Mothering, Baby Talk, Nurturing, and The Washington Post. She founded Platypus Media in 1995 to promote breastfeeding as well as the concepts and practice of attachment parenting to parents and professionals. Platypus Media is publishing its first collection of children's books in early 2001.
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, physician and ordained minister, is the founder and director of The Dove Center, an organization devoted to promoting the healing of body, mind and spirit of children, families and caregivers from hospital to home. 3/25, 1:30 pm.
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received her BA in History from UVa and Masters in Elementary Education from the College of William and Mary. She taught in Atlanta and currently is a part-time administrator/ teacher in Albemarle County. 3/25, 3 pm.
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wrote Nadanda, The Wordmaker, which received a Writer’s Digest Award. Her latest book is The Mount Dorans: African American History Notes of a Florida Town. 3/22, 8;45 and 9:45 am.
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, director of The Land Without Liberty, is a UVA fourth-year student who has participated in numerous collegiate and professional productions around Washington, D.C. 3/25, 3 pm.
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is the author of The Pet Shop Mouse, Santa's New Reindeer and the Glitterbug Story. She has worked with bald eagles in Michigan, leatherback sea turtles in St. Croix and participated in a dinosaur dig in Montana. She teaches science and math at The Covenant School.
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, a Grammy Award winner as well as the recipient of the NEA National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors, has spent sixty years singing in peace rallies and civil rights marches. His songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn." He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife Toshi. 3/21, 10 am and 7 pm.
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, author of Seasons, was born and educated in New Orleans, where she wrote her first poem at age eleven. For fifteen years she has taught poetry workshops in elementary and middle schools and participated in numerous poetry readings. 3/21, 12:30 pm.
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is the founder and director of the Read-To-Me program for teenage mothers at the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in NYC. She studied Child Development at the Tavistock Clinic in London and holds an MSW from NYU. 3/25, 1:30 pm.
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has delighted young readers with more than twenty picture books, including Pigsty and One Halloween Night. He is also the illustrator of Cynthia Rylants’s beloved Poppleton series for beginning readers. 3/24, 12 p.m.
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is a writer, NPR essayist and US Postal Service letter carrier from Charlottesville. His first book, The Healer of Harrow Point, is a finalist for the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award. 3/20, 7 pm.
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, Tandem Friends English Department Chair, is a poet and fiction writer and Poetry Editor of IRIS, UVa’s Women’s Journal. She has judged The Writer’s Eye Contest at the Bayly Art Museum for the past six years. School 3/21, 1:10 pm.
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