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http://www.lesleanewman.com/About Lesléa
Lesléa Newman has created 78 books for readers of all ages, including the teen novel-in-verse October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, the middle-grade novel Hachiko Waits, the picture books, Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story, Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed, Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale With A Tail, Heather Has Two Mommies, and Sparkle Boy, and the dual memoir-in-verse, I Carry My Mother and I Wish My Father. Her literary awards include two National Jewish Book Awards, two Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Awards, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors, the Massachusetts Book Award, an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Honor, and a Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Award Honor. She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Turkish, and Chinese.
