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by Shoshana Flax and Grant Snider
Jun 19, 2025 | Filed in Articles & Opinion

From the May/June 2025 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Perception and Reality.

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Shoshana Flax

Shoshana Flax, associate editor of The Horn Book, Inc., is a former bookseller and holds an MFA in writing for children from Simmons University. She has served on the Walter Dean Myers Award, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and Sydney Taylor Book Award committees.

Grant Snider

Grant Snider's latest book is Poetry Comics (Chronicle, 2024).

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