Yi-Shun Lai

Walking Through Fire: Hope and Resilience in Middle Grade and YA Fiction, Saturday, May 6 at 3:30pm, Mt. View Mausoleum

Yi Shun Lai is the author of A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic (Atheneum Books, February 2024). She is a columnist for The Writer magazine and teaches in Bay Path University’s MFA program for creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, Not a Self Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu, was a Thurber Prize Semi-Finalist. Thegooddirt.org.

Books That Make a Difference: The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham, Fat Girl on a Plane and Eat Your Heart Out, Kelly de Vos, The Impossible Us, Sarah Lotz.