April 2, 2011, Saturday - Second Story Reading: Donna Jo Napoli and Ricki Thompson at The Loft

Time: 2:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Second Story, the Loft’s reading series for writers of young adult and children’s literature, presents authors Donna Jo Napoli and Ricki Thompson.

Donna Jo Napoli is both a linguist and an award-winning writer of children's fiction. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish and will be in Thai and Polish soon. Her writing ranges from contemporary fiction to fantasy to historical novels. She also writes mathematics tales and science tales as well as books geared toward helping deaf people learn to read.

Ricki Thompson holds an MFA from the Vermont College Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults and is a former winner of the Loft Mentor Series. Her young adult historical novel, City of Cannibals, was published by Front Street Books in 2010. Her poetry and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, including the Threepenny Review, the Christian Century, Highlights and Ladybug. She has recently completed a young adult novel, Seduction, and a middle grade biography of Django Reinhardt.

Second Story is curated by Swati Avasthi and Heather Bouwman.