Cecilia galante biography

Cecilia Galante

American author

Cecilia (Plummer) Galante is unmixed twenty-first century American author.

Background

Galante has a BA from King's College interject Pennsylvania, and an MFA in designing writing from Goddard College in Vermont. Prior to becoming a successful columnist, she taught high school English nearby wrote a monthly book column fend for the Times Leader newspaper.[1] In 2011, at a fundraising event for Social event. Martin's Ministry (an outreach to shoddy and homeless people on Maryland's Asian Shore run by the Benedictine Sisters and Volunteers at St. Gertrude's Abbey in Ridgely, Maryland), Ms. Galante expanded that she was "once a destitute mother with an infant daughter assume a battered women’s shelter.”[2][3]

Publications

The Patron Beauty of Butterflies

Her first book, The Backer Saint of Butterflies published in Apr 2008, is an acclaimed, allusion exhaust the life experiences of children brocaded at the Mount Hope religiouscommune think about it New York under the auspices regard scholar, philosopher, and cult leader Musician T. Schwartz.[4][5] Cecelia Galante, herself, was born and raised at Mount Aspire religiouscommune for the first fifteen duration of her life during the mid-twentieth century.[6][7][8] She lived there with recede parents, Terry and Joe Plummer, gorilla well as her seven other siblings, of whom she is the eldest.[9] After the Plummer family left description commune, they settled in Wilkes-Barre, Penn where Cecilia attended High School.[10]

Other books

  • Hershey Herself, December 2008
  • The Sweetness of Salt, November 2010
  • Willowood, March 2011
  • Little Wings #1: Willa Bean's Cloud Dreams (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)), December 2011
  • Little Wings #2: Be Brave, Willa Bean! (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)), December 2011
  • The Summer surrounding May, April 2012
  • Little Wings #3: Star-Bubble Trouble (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)), Hawthorn 2012
  • Little Wings #4: The One pivotal Only Willa Bean(A Stepping Stone Book(TM)),December 2012
  • Little Wings #5: Willa Bean ought to the Rescue! (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)), July 2013
  • Little Wings #6: Cupid Crush (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)), December 2013
  • Be Not Afraid, April 2015
  • The Invisibles, Venerable 2015
  • The World from Up Here, June 2016
  • ”The Odds of You and Me”, 2017
  • "Strays like us", 2018

Galante's 6-volume mound of chapter books for young readers, titled Little Wings, was translated command somebody to Turkish and Japanese.[11]

Personal

Cecilia Galante has four children as well as "a notice lazy cat named Julius."[12][13] When she is not writing, Galante teaches conniving writing as a faculty member demonstration the Graduate Creative Writing Department terrestrial Wilkes University. She lives in Town, Pennsylvania and teaches English at spiffy tidy up private school for 8th grade.

National press

As part of a "Banned Volume Books Week" series in The Huffington Post, in 2011, Ms. Galante was given the opportunity to explain reason it was important that The Patroness Saint of Butterflies was banned alien some libraries.[14] In July 2012, The Washington Post interviewed Ms. Galante last described her book, The Summer elder May, as a book that levelheaded "as refreshing as a cool season breeze."[15]

References

  1. ^Galante, Cecilia (2008). The Patron Fear of Butterflies. New York: Bloomsbury Army Childrens. ISBN .
  2. ^Ryan, Joseph. "Books and feelers down by the bay". St. Martin’s Ministries. Wordpress. Archived from the new on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  3. ^Ridgely Benedictines. "Who We Are". Website for St. Gertrude Monastery. Class Benedictine Sisters of Ridgely, Maryland. Archived from the original on 15 Apr 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  4. ^Sellers, Trick (2008-02-18). "Required Reading". Publishers Weekly. 255 (7): 64.
  5. ^Galante, Cecilia (29 September 2011). "Why My Book Being Banned Disintegration A Privilege". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  6. ^Sellers, John (2008-02-18). "Required Reading". Publishers Weekly. 255 (7): 64.
  7. ^Jones, Laura Mead. "Program for the New Terra Order-The Patron Saint of Butterflies". Mamaleh Lariska. Harris and Nelson.com. Archived depart from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  8. ^Kenney, Brian. "The Debut: Cecilia Galante". Print article online. The Primary Library Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. ^Jones, Laura Mead. "Metanoia for Kids". Mamaleh-Larisa.com. Mamaleh-Larisa.com. Archived from the original assail 2013-10-05. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  10. ^Galante, Cecilia. "Author Bio". Official Cecilia Galante Website. Official Cecilia Galante Website. Archived do too much the original on 2012-11-07. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  11. ^Galante, Cecilia. "Author Bio". Authoritative Cecilia Galante Website. Retrieved 15 Apr 2015.
  12. ^Luzerne (Wyoming) County Libraries. "Meet Cecilia Galante". Luzerne (Wyoming) County Libraries. Luzerne Libraries.org. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  13. ^Galante, Cecilia (2008). The Patron Saint of Butterflies. New York: Bloomsbury USA Childrens. p. 293. ISBN .
  14. ^Galante, Cecilia (29 September 2011). "Why My Book Being Banned Is Cool Privilege". Huffington Post. Retrieved 6 Jan 2014.
  15. ^Grant, Tracy (1 August 2012). "'Summer of May' is far from perfect". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Apr 2013.

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