Saraciea J. Fennell (WFYP, January 2020) will moderate a panel of adult and children’s authors, highlighting the stories we need to protect and preserve, featuring books on prominent figures, Black history, and a memoir on why it’s critical to prioritize reading in this time. 

Saraciea J. Fennell is a Brooklyn born Black Honduran American writer from the Bronx. She is the founder of The Bronx is Reading, and creator of Honduran Garifuna Writers. She is also a book publicist who has worked with many award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors. Fennell board chair for Latinx in Publishing as well as on the Advisory Board of People of Color in Publishing. She lives in the Bronx with her husband, family and black poodle, Oreo. Her nonfiction anthology Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is available wherever books are sold. Her horror anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One, co-edited with Desiree S. Evans, is available now from Flatiron Books.