She settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1988 with her husband and daughter.Įducation is a chance to escape for Beatrice, a 13-year-old orphan living in Nairobi, Kenya’s Kibera area-one of the largest slums in sub-Saharan Africa. Since then she has travelled to many African countries on assignment for UN agencies, magazines and newspapers. Her career as a photographer began when she was assigned by UNICEF to photograph their projects around the south-west Pacific. Wendy Stone was raised in New York City, where she trained in photography and graphic design and worked for 13 years as a graphic designer. She has four children scattered around the world and lives with her husband in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She currently teaches creative writing and travel writing and works as a volunteer with refugee families. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, Africa, which is the setting for When Africa Was Home, a Booklist Editors' Choice. She also lived and worked in Haiti, the setting for several books including her highly acclaimed book Circles of Hope. Karen Lynn Williams is the author of over a dozen books for children, including Galimoto, a Reading Rainbow Featured Book and one of the New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year.
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