Rainey, the main character of Burlington-based Benjamin Roesch’s debut YA novel Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, is a musician by design rather than…
Tanya Lee Stone
Tanya Lee Stone is best known for her YA narrative nonfiction that focuses on overlooked histories. Courage Has No Color, about the first Black paratroopers in WWII, won an NAACP Image Award; Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream earned a Robert F. Sibert Medal. Peace Is a Chain Reaction is her newest book. Stone has a PhD in creative writing and is an assistant professor and program director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College.