Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Trisha Tobias Talks About Her Why

Sep 11, 2019 | Black Voices, Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News

“When I’m writing, the young person in my mind is teenage me–one of many young black girls looking for herself in YA fiction.”—Trisha Tobias

We asked Trisha, a 2019-2020 Diversity Fellow, why she writes for children:

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