GMBA Nominee Q&A Session (CAREERtalk)

Two-time Green Mountain Book Award-winning Champlain College Professor Tanya Stone interviews two current GMBA nominees. Tanya will draw connections between learning objectives and the lived experiences of guests Don Martin and Ryan La Sala.

About the Guests:
Ryan La Sala is a bestselling and award-winning author known for his genre-defying, queer-centered horror and fantasy, including The Honeys, which is in development to become a major motion picture, and The Dead of Summer duology. He is also the author of Beholder, Reverie and Be Dazzled. He has been featured in The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and more. He writes to you from New York, overseen by his cat, Haunted Little Girl.

Don Martin is the New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author of Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, Where Did Everybody Go?, The Dabbler’s Guide to Witchcraft, while I wait to be a god again, and The Playground, with more books on the way. He is also the host of the podcast Head On Fire, which speaks to experts in overlooked or misunderstood fields. He lives just outside Chicago with his husband and their many, many pets.

About the Interviewer:
Known for telling little-known true stories of extraordinary people who have shaped our world, Tanya Lee Stone has threaded themes of female empowerment throughout her body of work for nearly 20 years, writing narrative nonfiction as gripping as fiction. Stone is the author of the Sibert Medal-winning Almost Astronauts, NAACP Image Award-winning Courage Has No Color, and Golden Kite Award-winning The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie. Other works include Girl Rising, Elizabeth Leads the Way, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?, The House that Jane Built, Sandy’s Circus, and Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented. Her work has been recognized by the Bank Street Flora Straus Steiglitz Award, Jane Addams Honor, YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, NPR Best Books, and NCTE Orbis Pictus Honors. Stone also writes poetry and fiction and is the author of A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, which is #42 on ALA’s Top 100 Banned Books of the Decade.

This counts as a CAREERtalk InSight milestone.