Alex Gino and Aisha Saeed
Alex Gino and Aisha Saeed
Alex Gino
Alex Gino loves glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive. Their debut middle grade novel, Melissa (previously published as George) about a fourth-grade transgender girl, received four starred reviews, won Stonewall, Lambda, and Children’s Choice Debut Awards, and has been translated into fourteen languages.
Aisha Saeed
Aisha Saeed is the Pakistani-American author of the critically acclaimed middle grade novel, Amal Unbound and the ground-breaking teen novel, Written in the Stars. She is also a founding member of the grass-roots, non-profit organization, We Need Diverse Books.
Program A
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Book signings
Program B
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two ninety-minute, deep-dive breakout sessions. Each presenter leads one separate small-group (limited to thirty attendees) craft workshop.
- Book signings
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