Pamela Laskin

Pamela Laskin directs the Poetry Outreach Center at City College. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published, most recently, RONIT AND JAMIL, a Palestinian/Israeli version of “Romeo and Juliet” in verse published by Harper Collins in 2017.  BEA, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction. She teaches children’s writing in the MFA program