Author-in-Schools
Mary Ann Easley
Author/Educator
"Middle school students are following the famous Iditarod Race since becoming acquainted with you and your Arctic adventures. We're able to incorporate your literature through all curriculum strands and see renewed enthusiasm."
Julian, CA
Mary Ann Easley: MaryAward-winning author & educator, writing coach, and independent publisher (www.windflowerpress.com), MaryAnn Easley is a frequent author in schools (www.authorinschools.com), offering classroom visits, book talks, assemblies, and writing workshops for grades K-2, 2-5, 6-8. Her books include the Junior Library Guild Selection and ALA Quick Picks I Am the Ice Worm now sold under the Scholastic title of Alone in the Ice World. Other titles include Finding Jade Mountain, Dog Woman, Belly Up, A Few Screws Loose, Looking Out for Lindy, Warrior’s Daughter, a K-2 picture book titled The Seventh “S” of Spring, (http://thepersianpicutrebook.blogspot.com) and Knuckle Down (http://knuckledown-thebook.blogspot.com). All of her books are based on personal experiences growing up during World War II, living in Inuit Arctic villages, and fishing commercially for salmon along the California coast. During her visits, she describes how to turn real life adventures into fiction, the use of metaphor and subtext, and developing character and plot arc. To enhance her presentations, she designs each school visit to meet the needs of students and teachers as she focuses on language arts state standards and excites even the most reluctant writer with realia and legends from the Northwest Arctic, charts, posters, and pictures. Her husband, Richard, also an author, incorporates his experience as a submariner, teacher at a juvenile ranch facility, and salvager of old ships into his fiction: Run from Diablo, Dream Salvagers, Seadragon. In the works is a nonfiction book about a young Go-Kart champion, and some of their titles are now audio books. Samples can be heard at www.selftot.com.
Description of programs: The author captures the imagination of students with the personal experiences behind the writing of her middle grade novels as she explains the writing process.
Grades: K-8
Instructional Materials Included: Teacher's hand-outs, autographed books for schools
Other: Family Fun Nights, workshops, after-school programs, literature circles, book clubs.
CONTACT:
Mary Ann Easley
(949) 425-2969
E-mail: authorinschools@gmail.com
Web Site: www.authorinschools.com