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Visiting Author

The Visiting Author program is one of the targeted programs the Foundation for ICCSD supports. In collaboration with Hills Bank's Community Reading Month, two authors are chosen annually to interact with students in the District, sharing insights about their writing and journeys. One author engages with elementary students, while the other connects with secondary students. Discover more about each program below.

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Stacy McAnulty

In November 2023, Stacy McAnulty, a children's author and former mechanical engineer, visited all of our 3rd and 4th grade classrooms thanks to the generous, longtime support of Hills Bank. Stacy engaged our students with her captivating storytelling and ignited their curiosity and enthusiasm for reading, science, writing, and math!

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Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany D. Jackson is the NYT Bestselling, award-winning author of YA novels Monday’s Not Coming, Allegedly, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, Santa in The City, The Weight of Blood, and co-author of Blackout. A Coretta Scott King — John Steptoe New Talent Award-winner and the NAACP Image Award-nominee, she received her bachelor of arts in film from Howard University and has over a decade in TV/Film experience.

Juana Martinez Neal

Juana Martinez-Neal

Juana Martinez-Neal is the recipient of the 2019 Caldecott Honor for Alma and How She Got Her Name (Candlewick Press), her debut picture book as author-illustrator. She is also a New York Times bestselling illustrator recipient of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Medal for Fry Bread: A Native American Story (Roaring Brook) and the 2018 Pura Belpré Medal for Illustration for La Princesa and the Pea (Putnam).