Join us for an evening with Mary Cecilia Jackson in conversation with Cynthia Salaysay discussing her new book Sparrow. In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, Sparrow is a devastating yet hopeful YA debut about a ballerina who finds the courage to confront the abuse that haunts her past and threatens her future.

Books and bookplates available at https://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/mary-cecilia-jackson-virtual-event-sparrow

About the Author
Mary Cecilia Jackson has worked as a middle school teacher, an adjunct instructor of college freshmen, a technical writer and editor, a speechwriter, a museum docent, and a development officer for central Virginia’s PBS and NPR stations. Her first novel, Sparrow, was an honor recipient of the SCBWI Sue Alexander Award and a young adult finalist in the Writers’ League of Texas manuscript contest. She lives with her architect husband, William, in Western North Carolina and Hawaii.

Mary will be in conversation with Cynthia Salaysay who holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Berkeley, and has workshopped her fiction at Tin House. Currently, she works as a Reiki practitioner and an operating-room nurse in Oakland, California. Private Lessons was her first YA novel.

Mary Cecilia Jackson Virtual Event for Sparrow