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Wandering Moth Press understands that a writer's career doesn't necessarily follow a straight path.
Erin Prather Stafford, host of Girls That Create, welcomes award-winning writer Jess Rinker, who has several books for young readers, including picture book biographies and middle-grade fiction. Titles include Gloria Takes a Stand, a biography of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and Send a Girl!: The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY. Middle-grade novels include The Dare Sisters and The Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked!, Out of Time: Lost on the Titanic, The Hike to Home, and the new MONOLITH, a Wandering Moth Press endeavor.
Rinker has a BA in Social Welfare and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also teaches in the University of Reno, Nevada at Lake Tahoe’s MFA program in the Writing for Children and Young Adults track, and undergrad creative writing at Centenary University in New Jersey. Most recently, Rinker won the Katherine Paterson Prize for The Girl in the Window and was awarded the Excellence in Teaching and Learning award for quality online course creation and teaching.
​In addition to writing for children, Rinker’s creative nonfiction has been featured in Feminine Collective, Creative Parents, Family Circle Magazine, PA Theatre Guide, Hunger Mountain, and other online publications, including the Cancer Hope Network website, which chronicles her experience as a caregiver while living in a rural area.
Learn more about Rinker and her work at jessrinker.com.
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