Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Two Early October events and Queer KidLit Recommendations!
Hello community! Join me Online: On Saturday Oct 4, 2025, my picture book Love of the Half-Eaten Peach (beautifully illustrated by Jieting Chen) is one of five finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards in the children's books category! They're doing an all-day...
Lee Wind Author Updates for August 2025 – A Lambda Literary Finalist spot for “Love of the Half-Eaten Peach,” Early Reviews from SLJ & PW for “Banana Menorah,” and more
Hi Community! I'm working hard to stay focused in this moment where the forces of chaos rage, wanting all of our attention so we have nothing left for kindness, or art, or standing up for each other in community. Part of that is this monthly exercise of sharing the...
Lee Wind Author Updates for July 2025 – a Kirkus STAR for “Like That Eleanor,” a July 27 Event for families at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center, and more
Hi community! Amidst everything, I'm glad to be able to share these updates with you... 1. If you're in the New York area and can get to The Playhouse at the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (106 Valkill Park Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538) on Sunday July 27, 2025 I...
Lee Wind Author Updates – Jun 2025
Hello community! I hope you and yours are well. Amidst the chaos of our world, some really nice things have also been happening. In the spirit of our joy is resistance, here are some highlights of my author journey to share: 1. THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE was named...
Like THAT Eleanor publishes Tuesday June 3, 2025!
Publishing takes time... but having a new book come out when it's finally all ready is so sweet! "Like THAT Eleanor" is beautifully illustrated by Kelly Mangan, and published so well by Maria Dismondy, Adam Blackman, and the team at Cardinal Rule Press. It's the...
Lee Wind (that’s me) Receives the 2025 BISG Industry Champion Award
This was a pretty amazing experience. Amid everything going on right now, I'm delighted to get to share about how we can collectively go on the offense against book banning with WE ARE STRONGER THAN CENSORSHIP! It's the program I co-created with Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson...
So BISG Announced the next winner of their “Industry Champion Award”… and it turns out it’s me!
This is very, very cool - especially because it is a giant shout out to WE ARE STRONGER THAN CENSORSHIP, the program I co-founded that goes on the offense against book banning. As I put it in BISG's article: "I'm so grateful to BISG for this recognition. As an author...
Hope through Art, and other updates – Feb 2025
Hello community! “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” is a famous poem by Emily Dickinson where hope “never stops.” For me, the feather metaphor telegraphs that hope is fragile, but the visual metaphor I prefer is the HOPE sculpture by Robert Indiana at the corner of...
Finding My Breath
I take this hit Like a steel knife scraping flint And I have erupted into flame. A fire of fury burns in my gut but I will not let it consume me. Instead, I will breathe fire Like dragons of legend. I will be a safe harbor. I will keep those who feel the bitter cold...
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