Teen Author Panel: Art Inspiring Art

Join local authors Rebecca Coffindaffer (Crownchasers), Tessa Gratton (Night Shine), Adib Khorram (Darius the Great Deserves Better), and Natalie C. Parker (Vampires Never Get Old) for a virtual discussion on art inspiring art.

Join us on Zoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83785320477?pwd=aTVCSE5MaGNYNnluMlM4WldjR3ZvZz09

Meeting ID: 837 8532 0477
Password: 574386 

Author Bios:

Rebecca Coffindaffer grew up on Star Wars, Star Trek, fantastical movies and even more fantastical books. These days she lives in Kansas with her family, writing stories about magic and politics, spaceships, far-off worlds, and girls walking away from explosions in slow motion. Her debut YA novel, Crownchasers, releases Sept. 29, 2020.

Adib Khorram is the author of the young adult novels Darius the Great is Not Okay and Darius the Great Deserves Better, as well as the forthcoming picture book Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story (February 16, 2021). When he isn’t writing, you can find him learning to do a Lutz jump, practicing his handstands, or steeping a cup of oolong. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where people don’t usually talk about themselves in the third person.

Tessa Gratton is the author of adult SFF, The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur from Tor Books, as well as several YA series and short stories which have been translated into twenty-two languages. Her most recent YAs are the original fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine from McElderry Books. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides alongside the Kansas prairie with her wife. 

Natalie C. Parker is the author and editor of several books for young adults among them the acclaimed Seafire trilogy. Her work has been included on the NPR Best Books list, the Indie Next List, and the TAYSHAS Reading List, and in Junior Library Guild selections. Natalie grew up in a navy family finding home in coastal cities from Virginia to Japan. Now, she lives with her wife and fellow writer, Tessa Gratton, in Kansas.