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Alexandra Villasante, author portrait
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Alexandra Villasante

Alexandra Villasante's Young Adult novel, The Grief Keeper, won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children’s Literature/Young Adult Fiction and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection. Alex is a contributor to several Young Adult short story anthologies and is a co-founder of the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival and the Latinx Storytellers Conference. When she’s not writing or painting, Alex works for the Highlights Foundation. You can visit Alex at www.alexandravillasante.com
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The Grief Keeper

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The Grief Keeper

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