Alex and Maia Shibutani on Telling Asian American Stories: My New Favorite Olympian | NBCLX
Ice dancing duo and Olympic hopefuls Alex and Maia Shibutani, aka the Shib Sibs, worked on a book they hope will help Asian American kids feel seen. New York Times bestselling children’s book author Stacey Lee also shares why BIPOC perspectives are so important in children’s literature, an industry where white voices and perspectives greatly outnumber everyone else.
Celebrating Diverse Voices
This special Summer Reading panel discussion features the Harrison Library’s Summer Reading Ambassador and bestselling authors Stacey Lee, Olivia Abhati, and Mitali Perkins. They discuss their latest novels and diverse cast of characters.
Meet the Author
The Harrison Public Library is pleased to have award winning author Stacey Lee join us as this year’s Summer Reading Ambassador. She will be discussing her new book, Luck of the Titanic, recently released in May 2021.
FOLLETT BEHIND THE BOOK AUTHOR TAKEOVER WEBINAR
Follett provides a variety of educational products to schools, colleges, and public libraries. In their Author Takeover series they invited popular authors to candidly share insights into their works and how their books may be incorporated into distance learning and classroom plans.
Craft Talks With Stacey Lee
SJSU Writing Center interviews Stacey for their Spring Craft Talk Series.
A NIGHT WITH STACEY
The Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library hosted “A Night With Stacey” where she was interviewed by her daughter.
HERSTORY TEA TIME
Penguin Books Canada hosted HerStory Tea Time with historical fiction authors Elizabeth Wein (The Enigma Game), Sherri L. Smith (The Blossom and The Firefly), Virginia Frances Schwartz (Among the Fallen), and Stacey Lee (The Downstairs Girl).
TEDX TALK: SMALL VOICES MAKE LOUD ECHOES
An award-winning author of young adult fiction, Stacey Lee is more than just a creator of worlds; in her talk, she stresses the need for diverse children’s books and highlights the importance of giving a voice to the voiceless.
PEN Center Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction
Stacey’s historical young adult fiction, Outrun the Moon, won the 2017 PEN Center Literary Award in Young Adult Fiction. This was Stacey’s acceptance speech at The 27th Annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Epic Author Facts
Epic Reads gets to know Stacey Lee, author of The Secret Of A Heart Note, as she tells us about her previous jobs, her experience at Seventeen magazine, and her surfing wipe out story!
Would You Rather
Have you ever wondered if your favorite author would rather be really sweaty in front of an audience or be really itchy? Epic Reads plays a game of Would You Rather! with Stacey.
88 CUPS OF TEA Podcast: STACEY LEE ON UNCOVERING UNTOLD STORIES
Stacey discusses cultivating inner confidence as a storyteller at a young age and nurturing and harnessing it throughout a writing career. Stacey reflects on the invaluable writing strategies she absorbed from her career as a lawyer and how it lends itself to crafting authenticity in the characters found in her novels. Listen to the conversation filled with writing advice about the detailed research process, using metaphors to describe protagonists, finding critique partners, and more.
CENTRE COUNTY READS EVENT AT PENN STATE
Stacey’s historical fiction for young adults, Under A Painted Sky, was the Centre County Reads selection in 2017. Stacey discussed the book, writing diverse characters and growing up Asian-American during a discussion at Penn State with the NPR Public Radio affiliate for Central Pennsylvania – WPSU’s Eleanor Klibanoff. April 2017.
RACHEL DORNHELM AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH STACEY
Stacey is interviewed on KALW-FM—a San Francisco NPR affiliate—by Rachel Hornhelm, an award-winning freelance journalist whose radio work has aired on PRI’s “Marketplace” as well as NPR newsmagazines and local affiliates KQED, WBUR and WNYC. – July 13, 2015