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Visiting Artist: Lauren Weinstein

Comic page by Lauren Weinstein

Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist and artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. Her acclaimed comic Normel Person was the last weekly comic strip to run in The Village Voice. This year, Weinstein’s Being an Artist and a Mother won a Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, and was published in Best American Comics 2019. Her most recent novella, Mother’s Walk, was selected for the latest issue of Frontier. Weinstein is also the author of three books: Inside Vineyland (Alternative Comics, 2003), the teenage memoir Girl Stories (Henry Holt and Co., 2006), and Goddess of War (Picturebox, 2008). She has received two Ignatz Awards among other nominations. In 2015, Weinstein was awarded the Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators for Carriers, her five-part webcomic about cystic fibrosis that was first published in Nautilus. Weinstein earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Jo Knowles

Cover of Read Between the Lines by Jo Knowles

Jo Knowles is the author of Still a Work in Progress (Candlewick, 2016), Read Between the Lines (Candlewick, 2016), Living with Jackie Chan (Candlewick, 2015), See You at Harry’s (Candlewick, 2013), Pearl (Henry Holt, 2011), Jumping Off Swings (Candlewick, 2011), and Lessons from a Dead Girl (Candlewick, 2009). Jo’s awards include two SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book, the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award, American Library Association Notables, Bank Street College’s Best Books for Children (Outstanding Merit), and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Jo’s books have also appeared on numerous state award lists. Jo has a master’s degree in children’s literature and teaches writing at the Mountain View MFA program through Southern New Hampshire University.

Jo Knowles

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