Watch Party-- Virtual Author Panel: A Journey of Discovery: A Together With Pride Event *Ages 12+
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Join us at the Attleboro Public Library for a Watch Party of the event below! This event is put on by the Boyden Library in Foxboro...APL patrons will come together in the Attleboro Library's tech lab to watch together! Please register so we have enough space!
If you have questions about the content of the program, please reach out to Boyden library staff (info below).
Virtual Author Panel: A Journey of Discovery: A Together With Pride Event *Ages 12+
Thursday, June 11 7:00—8:00 PM
Virtual Author Panel: Journey of Discovery
*For Ages 12+
We are excited to announce once again Boyden Library will be hosting an author panel of three YA authors who will share their personal journey of discovery of identity and growing up LGBTQIA+!
This panel is part of the second annual “Together with Pride” initiative to celebrate and support the community in partnership with other local Foxborough organizations. It will be moderated by Boyden's Teen Librarian Jennifir Huston.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
About The Authors
Matteo L. Cerilli
Matteo L. Cerilli (he/him) is a transmasc author and activist specializing in speculative fiction for all ages. His work features the YA horror novel LOCKJAW (Tundra, 2024); middle grade ghost story SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO (Harper Collins Canada, 2025); YA noir BAD IN THE BLOOD (Tundra, 2025); young YA gamer action FATHOM FALL (Bloomsbury, 2026); a featured short story in BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR (Ghoulish Books, 2024); and poetry in Augur magazine. His activism work has included setting up gender care for trans students at York University, helping to found the Students for Queer Liberation—Tkaronto, and organizing with the No Pride in Policing Coalition.
Josh Galarza
Longtime Montessori educator Josh Galarza writes fiction and creative nonfiction and is a multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in printmaking and book arts. His research centers male gender performance, queer issues, body liberation, and Chicano issues. His debut novel, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Henry Holt & Company), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. His next young adult novel, False Face!, is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Company.
Galarza holds an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he taught creative writing, and a BA in English and BFA in art from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he taught printmaking. He lives in Northern Nevada.
Lin/L.T. Thompson
Lin / L.T. Thompson writes stories about queer kids and teens discovering themselves and having adventures. They’re a proud library worker and the author of two books for middle-grade readers, The Best Liars in Riverview and The House That Whispers (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), and one for young adults, Devils Like Us (Bloomsbury). They grew up in Kentucky, spent a decade in Boston, and now live in Iowa with their wife and cat. When they’re not writing, they enjoy picking up new hobbies and letting their interests cycle like the tides.
The Boyden Library extends its gratitude to the Ashland Public Library & The Friends of Ashland Public Library for generously providing Zoom access for this event, enabling collaboration with numerous other libraries across Massachusetts and NH.
If you have questions about the content of the program, please reach out to Boyden library staff (info below).
Virtual Author Panel: A Journey of Discovery: A Together With Pride Event *Ages 12+
Thursday, June 11 7:00—8:00 PM
Virtual Author Panel: Journey of Discovery
*For Ages 12+
We are excited to announce once again Boyden Library will be hosting an author panel of three YA authors who will share their personal journey of discovery of identity and growing up LGBTQIA+!
This panel is part of the second annual “Together with Pride” initiative to celebrate and support the community in partnership with other local Foxborough organizations. It will be moderated by Boyden's Teen Librarian Jennifir Huston.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
About The Authors
Matteo L. Cerilli
Matteo L. Cerilli (he/him) is a transmasc author and activist specializing in speculative fiction for all ages. His work features the YA horror novel LOCKJAW (Tundra, 2024); middle grade ghost story SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO (Harper Collins Canada, 2025); YA noir BAD IN THE BLOOD (Tundra, 2025); young YA gamer action FATHOM FALL (Bloomsbury, 2026); a featured short story in BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR (Ghoulish Books, 2024); and poetry in Augur magazine. His activism work has included setting up gender care for trans students at York University, helping to found the Students for Queer Liberation—Tkaronto, and organizing with the No Pride in Policing Coalition.
Josh Galarza
Longtime Montessori educator Josh Galarza writes fiction and creative nonfiction and is a multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in printmaking and book arts. His research centers male gender performance, queer issues, body liberation, and Chicano issues. His debut novel, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Henry Holt & Company), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. His next young adult novel, False Face!, is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Company.
Galarza holds an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he taught creative writing, and a BA in English and BFA in art from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he taught printmaking. He lives in Northern Nevada.
Lin/L.T. Thompson
Lin / L.T. Thompson writes stories about queer kids and teens discovering themselves and having adventures. They’re a proud library worker and the author of two books for middle-grade readers, The Best Liars in Riverview and The House That Whispers (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), and one for young adults, Devils Like Us (Bloomsbury). They grew up in Kentucky, spent a decade in Boston, and now live in Iowa with their wife and cat. When they’re not writing, they enjoy picking up new hobbies and letting their interests cycle like the tides.
The Boyden Library extends its gratitude to the Ashland Public Library & The Friends of Ashland Public Library for generously providing Zoom access for this event, enabling collaboration with numerous other libraries across Massachusetts and NH.
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