The Importance of Realistic Fiction for Young Adults – With Maureen Sherbondy

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with award-winning writer Maureen Sherbondy about the reasons realistic fiction are important for young adults to reflect real life issues and what writers should think when writing these stories.

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Maureen Sherbondy is an award-winning writer and the author of Lucky Brilliant, Dancing with Dali, and many other works of poetry, short stories, and chapbooks She is the recipient of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, NC Poet Laureate Award, Charlotte Writers’ Club Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, and the Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize. She currently teaches at Alamance Community College and lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband, Barry Peters.