Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and over Zoom.

MICHELLE KNUDSEN is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for children and teens, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion, which was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. Her other books include the picture book Marilyn’s Monster (NPR’s Best Books) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). She writes about love, friendship, dragons, demons, magic, musical theater, and, sometimes, giant spiders. She also writes occasional short stories for adults. Her next book will be LUIGI, THE SPIDER WHO WANTED TO BE A KITTEN, coming March 5, 2024, from Candlewick Press.

PAMELA PETRO is a writer, artist, and educator. She works in both research nonfiction and memoir—often braiding the two together—and as a visual artist works with experimental forms of photography. In addition to the MFA, she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales, Trinity St David. Her essays have been published in Lumina, The Paris Review, Granta, Slab, and Harvard Review Online.