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Category: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

Color portrait photo of Meg Medina, smiling at camera. She has shoulder-length brown hair, frame glasses and is wearing a black turtleneck and a dark green sweater

Meet Meg Medina, the Library’s New Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

Posted by: Leah Knobel

Meg Medina, a writer whose work explores how culture and identity intersect through the eyes of children and young adults, today was named as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2023-2024, the Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader announced. Medina, a Cuban-American, is the eighth author to hold the position and the first …