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featuring KEYNOTE SPEAKERS RAINA TELGEMEIER and DONALYN MILLER
Raina Telgemeier is the New York Times best- selling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator
of Smile and Sisters, which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. Her newest memoir, Guts, will be out in September 2019. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, and is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Raina’s newest work is a how-to guide for comics called Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
To learn more, visit her online at goRaina.com. Find her on Twitter @goraina.
is a leading expert on independent reading, children’s literature, and the author of two
bestsellers, The Book Whisperer and Reading
in the Wild. She is founder of the annual
#bookaday event, co-founder with Colby Sharp
of The Nerdy Book Club, and co-host of the
monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk. Her most recent book is co- authored with Colby Sharp, Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids. Click here for complete biography.
Photo credit: Marta X. Perez
