Meet a Lerner: Lara Neel
Meet Lara Neel, Lerner's Trade Marketing Manager!Read more "Meet a Lerner: Lara Neel"
Meet a Lerner: Elizabeth Horab
Meet Elizabeth Horab, Executive Assistant to the CEO.Read more "Meet a Lerner: Elizabeth Horab"
Meet a Lerner: Kjersten Piper
Meet Kjersten Piper, Lerner’s Sales Coordinator!Read more "Meet a Lerner: Kjersten Piper"
Writing, Editing, and Sharing Poetry from Can I Touch Your Hair?
By Libby Stille, Associate Publicist In January of 2015, editor Carol Hinz had an idea for a children’s poetry picture book that discussed race in a way that would be accessible to middle-grade audiences. She reached out to poet and children’s author Irene Latham and asked her to suggest a partner for the project. Irene […]Read more "Writing, Editing, and Sharing Poetry from Can I Touch Your Hair?"
Meet a Lerner: Andrea Nelson
Meet our Digital and Editorial intern, Andrea Nelson!Read more "Meet a Lerner: Andrea Nelson"
Vaccination Investigation: Meet Journalist and YA Nonfiction Author Tara Haelle
By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director of Twenty-First Century Books Twenty-First Century Books’ Spring 2018 season is starting off with a bang! One of our YA nonfiction imprint’s newest contributors–science journalist Tara Haelle–got a glowing starred review from Kirkus in February for Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines. Described in the review as […]Read more "Vaccination Investigation: Meet Journalist and YA Nonfiction Author Tara Haelle"
Poetry, Race, and Art: A Conversation with Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, and Nina Crews
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books While working on the books Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship and Seeing into Tomorrow: Poems by Richard Wright, I couldn’t help noticing commonalities between the two. Both are volumes of poetry and both explore race and identity. Yet the books differ […]Read more "Poetry, Race, and Art: A Conversation with Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, and Nina Crews"
Meet YA Author Kiersi Burkhart
Author Kiersi Burkhart stops by the blog to talk about her debut YA novel, Honor Code.Read more "Meet YA Author Kiersi Burkhart"
Meet a Lerner: Cully Beisell
Read an interview with Cully Beisell (pictured above with Harry Lerner), who recently celebrated her 45th anniversary at Lerner! How did you get your first job at the company? In which departments have you worked? Lerner was looking for their very first receptionist and the editorial director contacted a friend of his who taught business […]Read more "Meet a Lerner: Cully Beisell"
