Lesley Younge Story Time and Book Signing

Join Lesley for a story time, brief Q&A, and book signing, as she joins the Shepherdstown Book Festival as a featured author!
Books will be available for purchase at the end. Attendees can also bring previously purchased books for Lesley to sign.Free and open to the public.
Lesley Younge is an educator and writer from Silver Spring, Maryland. She debuted as an author in 2023 with two books for young people. Nearer My Freedom (co-authored with her mentor Monica Edinger) is an award winning YA verse novel remix of British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s seminal autobiography. A-Train Allen, her first picture book, was the inaugural Own Voices, Own Stories Grand Prize Winner awarded by Sleeping Bear Press. Lesley is a fellow of Hurston/Wright Foundation and Anaphora Literary Arts. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Spoken Black Girl Magazine, West Trade Review, Midnight & Indigo, The Plentitudes, and Full Bleed.

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