UMass Boston

PhD, University of Cambridge
MPhil, University of Cambridge
BA, Williams College

• Piece By Piece: A Yin Tu Tang Story.Picture book commissioned by the Peabody Essex Museum Publishing Press. 2019.
• Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire. Reprint with Scholastic Books. 2019.
• Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story. Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan. 2019.
• Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book is A Classic. Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan. 2018.
• Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire. Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan. 2017.
• “Between ‘Castoff’ and ‘Half-Man’: Pressuring Mixed-Race Identity in The Drowned Cities.” Raced Bodies, Erased Lives: Depictions of Race in Young Adult Dystopian and Science Fiction. Eds. Miranda Green-Barteet & Meghan Gilbert-Hickey (University Press of Mississippi). Forthcoming in 2020.
• “Battling School: Death as Education in Ender’s Game.” Global Perspectives on Death in Children’s Literature. Eds. Lesley Clement & Leyli Jamali (Routledge). 2015.
• “Distant Districts and Dark Days: National Identity in The Hunger Games.” Power and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Eds. Aine McGillicudy & Marian Keyes. (Four Courts Press). 2014.
• “The Making of the Citizen: Politics of Maturation in The Hunger Games.” Space and Place in ‘The Hunger Games’: New Readings of the Novels. Eds. Deirdre Anne Evans Garriott, Whitney Elaine Jones & Julie Elizabeth Tyler. (McFarland). 2014.
• “Worse Games To Play?: Deconstructing Resolution in The Hunger Games.” The Politics of Panem: Critical Perspectives on ‘The Hunger Games.’ Ed. Sean P. Connors. (Sense) 2014.
• “Burn With Us: Sacrificing Childhood in The Hunger Games.” The Lion and the Unicorn 37.1: p.54-73. 2013.

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Fiction

• 2019 New England Book Award Finalist
• 2017 Asian/Pacific American Library Association Children’s Honor Award
• 2017 Workshop Fellow at Tent: Children’s Literature, Sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst. Weeklong retreat for emerging Jewish authors
• 2015 Gish Jen Emerging Writers Fellow, Writers’ Room of Boston                                            

Academic

• 2011 Jacqueline Wilson Award, University of Cambridge
• 2011 Shortlisted for United Kingdom Literacy Association Student Research Award 
• 2011 MPhil Distinction, University of Cambridge

Courses Taught

• English 200 Introduction to Literary Studies
• English 303 Creative Writing for Children
• English 335 Children’s Literature
• English 371 Young Adult Literature 
• English 379 Special Topics: The Evil Child in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
• English 273G The Art of Fiction 
• English 262G The Art of Literature