Born in Kolkata, India, Perkins lived in Ghana, Cameroon, England, and Mexico before her parents settled in California when she was in middle school. She is the author of many […]
Award winning children鈥檚 book author and illustrator Matt Faulkner has over 35 books to his credit. His graphic novel Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, won the American Library Association Asian/Pacific […]
Ransome has been honored with the 2023 Children鈥檚 Literature Legacy Award by the American Library Association in recognition of his exceptional contributions to children鈥檚 literature. With a career spanning over […]
Cline Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books, including a verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet, and her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, winner […]
Belote is the illustrator of Frankenslime and Valenslime. She is the author-illustrator of her debut early reader The Me Tree and her picture book Listen Up, Louella. She studied traditional […]
Faculty Exhibition Opening: Illustration Faculty Exhibition Lecture and Book Signing In conjunction with Illustration Faculty Exhibition, on view July 11 鈥 September 22, 2024, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, […]
The Francelia Butler Conference is hosted every summer by the Graduate Program in Children鈥檚 Literature at Hollins University. Since 1995, this entirely student-run conference has honored critical and creative works […]
Building and maintaining a participatory, democratic society involves developing strategies for talking with and listening to people who don鈥檛 always share our perspectives and life experiences. Dr. Eboo Patel, author, […]
The first in the Batten Leadership Institute’s “Leading Together” speaker series will explore why and how love can be an effective leadership strategy and how to apply that strategy in […]
Reading: Thursday, October 9, 2025 鈥 7:30 pm 鈥 Green Drawing Room, Main Building Mary Favret is Professor of English at John Hopkins University. Professor Favret has been teaching literature […]
Reading: Thursday, October 30, 2025 鈥 7:30 pm 鈥 Green Drawing Room, Main Building Heather Christle is the author of In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf […]
Reading: Thursday, November 13, 2025 鈥 7:30 pm 鈥 Hollins Room, Library Workshop: 鈥淭ranslation vs. Transliteration vs. Multilingual Texts鈥 Friday, November 14, 2025 鈥 10:00 am 鈥 12:00 pm 鈥 […]