Lesléa Newman has created 85 books for readers of all ages including the dual memoir-in-verse, “I Carry My Mother” and “I Wish My Father,” the novel-in-verse, “October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard” and the children’s books “Here Is The World: A Year of Jewish Holidays,” “Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed,” “Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story,” “The Babka Sisters” and “Heather Has Two Mommies.” Her literary awards include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two National Jewish Book Awards, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors, and the Massachusetts Book Award. She is a past poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts and a current faculty member of Spalding University’s Naslund Mann School of Professional Writing.
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