Shelly Page
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Shelly Page is based in Los Angeles, California.
Bio
From the American Library Association conference website:[1]
- Shelly Page was raised in Chicago, maintains a long-distance love affair with New York, and currently resides in Los Angeles. By day, she’s a practicing attorney representing homeless LGBTQ+ youth of color. By night, she’s planning ways to bewitch her readers while simultaneously awakening their inner gay. Her editorial debut, Night of the Living Queers, is a QPOC horror anthology which received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Shelf Awareness. Her YA debut, Brewed with Love, is a queer contemporary romantasy to be published by Joy Revolution in Spring 2025.
How to Run an LGBTQIA2S+ Book Club for Teens if You’re Not Queer or Trans
Jen Ferguson led a panel discussion for the American Library Association 2024 conference titled "How to Run an LGBTQIA2S+ Book Club for Teens if You’re Not Queer or Trans" on June 29, 2024.[2],[3]
Shelly Page was a panelist.
- Say you know there’s a need for a queer book club for teens at your library, and you’re willing to run the program, but you’re not queer or trans—what are some best practices for being an incredible ally to your LGBTQIA2S+ teens? This panel will bring a group of LGBTQIA2S+ authors together to think through best practices, and all the tips and tricks we’ve got to make your queer book club the strongest it can be. We will talk book selection, developing a community agreements and think through the kinds of other supports a queer book club needs to be successful if the person running the programming isn't queer themselves, especially in the current, shall we say, landscape.
Learning Objectives:
- level up their allyship to queer and trans teens in their libraries and their lives.
- consider what goes into providing a service to a group with specific needs which the librarian does not share.
- leave ALA24 with instantly applicable ideas and techniques to bring home with them.
- consider the challenges of providing a service in the current landscape of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation.
Panelists
- Jen Ferguson (she/her/hers) Author Heartdrum/HarperCollins (Presenter)
- Racquel Marie Author Macmillan / Feiwel and Friends (she/her/hers)
- Shelly Page Author/Anthology Editor Macmillan/RHCB (she/her/hers)
- Edward Underhill Author HarperCollins / Macmillan (he/him/his)
- Justine Winans Author HarperCollins (they/them/theirs)