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SPEAKER SERIES

Darcie Little Badger in conversation with her editor, Nick Thomas
Program moderated by Guild member, Monica Valentine
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut YA novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time, and her second YA novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, is coming in 2021. Darcie’s short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple publications, including Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark.
Nick Thomas is a Senior Editor of middle grade and YA books with Levine Querido.
Monica Valentine is Program Specialist for the Library of Congress' Young Readers Center.
The annual Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award Event,
postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic, will be held online via Zoom
on Saturday, May 22, 2021, from 1:00-2:30 pm EST.
Registration for the event will open on March 1, 2021.
The Children's Book Guild 2021 Nonfiction Award Event honoring
Catherine Reef
May 22, 2021
1 PM - 2:30 PM EST
