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          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Elizabeth Argelia Leonard

Elizabeth Argelia Leonard

Elizabeth Argelia Leonard has been a writer since before she could actually read, making up stories and plays that her family were forced to listen to and sometimes scribe. She moved to London to write a novel and earned her Master’s from City University London. Since returning to the U.S., she has been working as a teaching artist/activist for top arts education and social justice organizations in New York City. She is also an editor and has recently edited three memoirs and a play, Adonis Memories, which was featured in The New York Times. She currently lives in New Jersey and is writing her second novel.

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