AUTHOR VISITS

City Youth Now regularly invites authors from the Bay Area and beyond to speak with the youth at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. All of the authors we sponsor have an inspiring story to share with the youth detained at the Juvenile Justice Center. City Youth Now collaborates with Amy Cheney of the Alameda County Library System, the Woodside Learning Center and the San Francisco Public Library to arrange author visits at the Juvenile Justice Center.

Recent & Upcoming Authors include:

• Adisa Banjoko, Lyrical Swords: Hip Hop and Politics in the Mix
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand
• Coe Booth, Kendra
• Wil Cason, Visualizing Your Victory
• Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts
• Ron Glodowski, How to be a Successful Criminal
• Lynn E. Hazen, Shifty
• Janice Higgins, There Were No Parents Here
• Niambi Jaha-Echols, Project Butterfly
• Dream Jordon, Hot Girl
• Keith Knight, K Chronicles and (Th)ink Website
• Bill Lee, Chinese Playground
• Devorah Major, An Open Weave
• Luis Rodriquez, Always Running
• Jeff Rivera, Forever My Lady
• Dana Reinhardt, Harmless
• Yasmin Shiraz, The Blue Print for My Girls
• Bret Strogen, UC Berkeley Speakers Series
• Ayelet Waldman, Daughter's Keeper
• Laura Werlin, The Great Grilled Cheese
• Al Young, California Poet Laureate

For more information on the Author Visits Program or if you are an author interested in participating in the program, please contact us at info@cityyouthnow.org.