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About the Instructors:

Liz Garton Scanlon is the author of many beloved books for kids, including the Caldecott Honor book All the World, One Dark Bird, Kate, Who Tamed the Wind, and Bob, Not Bob, co-authored by her pal Audrey Vernick. She also wrote the middle grade novel The Great Good Summer and has another forthcoming. She serves on the faculty of the Vermont Faculty of Fine Arts and is a frequent and popular presenter at conferences and festivals. Scanlon practices her poetry via a monthly group that thrives on writing prompts and panic. See her work at www.LizGartonScanlon.com

Sean Petrie has written over 10,000 instant poems at events from Maine to Mexico, from The Smithsonian to Willie Nelson’s SXSW festival. He is a founder of Austin’s “Typewriter Rodeo” and co-author of Typewriter Rodeo: Real People, Real Stories, Custom Poems (Andrews McMeel Universal 2018) and author of the poetry collection Listen to the Trees (Documentary Media 2020). He teaches poetry classes for kids and adults, and his poems for Typewriter Rodeo are featured on the weekly NPR radio program, “Texas Standard.” More at:  www.seanpetrie.com