Students at the ESL Institute at the University of New Hampshire presented a conference on June 19 to recognize World Refugee Day. ESL Lecturer Meaghan Dunn and her students had read The Good Braider and invited me to come and speak. I did, and went early to see the students’ poster presentations. They each focused…
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Braids and Belonging, On Writing a Story of a Girl from South Sudan
Excerpt from “Braids and Belonging” my article in IBBY LINK, Spring-Summer, 2015 the journal of IBBY UK, International Board of Books for Young People in the United Kingdom. “From the beginning of my years with the girls of Sudan, it was so much about hair. I saw how the styles were a vital part of…