creative [noun] live with Jared Reck

Jared Reck is a young adult author from Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife and two daughters and teaches 8th-grade Language Arts. Teaching is central to his writing life: Reck says he would not have become a writer if he had not first been a teacher, because his classroom is where he fell in love with YA literature and learned to write alongside his students. He grew up in Hanover, studied at Clemson University, earned a master’s in Educational Leadership from Shippensburg University, and later completed graduate coursework in McDaniel College’s Writing for Children and Young Adults program, where he has also taught.

Reck is the author of A Short History of the Girl Next Door and Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love, both published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. His books tend to mix humor, heartbreak, first love, family, grief, and the messy emotional life of teenagers. A Short History of the Girl Next Door was a 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, while Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love was named to YALSA’s 2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults and Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults lists and was a 2022 SCBWI Golden Kite Award finalist.

Doors will open at 6:30 PM, and the conversation will start at 7:00. We’ll chat informally to end the evening.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Andrew Smith (Visual Realia)