Ep54: Oh have I got a story to tell you!!

Monica is passionately in love with stories–the stories that connect us across culture, race, and age.  She believes that the right story, at the right time, can change a child’s life. Monica is most interested in bringing forward stories that are being forgotten or misremembered.  She writes picture books, contemporary middle grade fiction, and YA fiction. Her debut picture book, LET THE CHILDREN MARCH, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in January 2018. Her next book, STANDING ON HER SHOULDERS, was released from Orchard Press (Scholastic) in February 2021, with the amazing Laura Freeman illustrating. Monica is also a professional actor, and this is how she and I met. She was my understudy in Les Mis while doing the production in Arkansas. She is also a former children’s librarian, and voice-over artist, and lives in the coolest dwelling ever...a yurt in the country with one husband, too many cats, and just the right amount of daughters.  

I love Monica. I am so proud to call her friend. Enjoy! This will be a treat, and then some.

 

Find out more about Monica on her website. 

Monica Clark - Robinson.com