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Author Showcase: An Afternoon with Andrew Joseph White

A World Pride conversation with Andrew Joseph White and Saundra Mitchell

Join the Library for a conversation with YA author Andrew Joseph White in conversation with author Ellen Oh of We Need Diverse Books. White will discuss his writing at the intersection of transgender and autistic identity through the lens of horror, monstrosity, violence, and rage. 

   
About the Speakers

Andrew Joseph White is the trans, autistic, and bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Compound Fracture, and more. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat. 

Saundra Mitchell is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed author of twelve novels and two non-fiction history books, and an editor of four anthologies—all for young people. She primarily writes for tweens and teens, and has spent the last fifteen years of her career fighting for the reading rights of young people, especially those from marginalized groups and backgrounds. As a disabled, openly queer author, she has fought for equity in professional reviews for books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters of all ages, and continues to fight for equal inclusion in classes, school libraries and public libraries. Banned in at least twelve states, Mitchell is a vocal activist against censorship at the local, and national, level. Mitchell also teaches creative writing and screenwriting to students of all ages, and enjoys reading, studying history, playing ttrpgs and video games, and spending time with her wife and daughters. After a lifetime in the midwest, she now resides in Maryland. Her pronouns are she/they.

   
Sponsored by the DC Public Library Foundation and the Capital Pride Alliance in partnership with Loyalty Bookstore

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