Harry Bennett Branch Local Author Series: Meira Rosenberg

­­Meira Rosenberg will read and discuss her books Indiana Bamboo and her latest, 28 Days of Neon.

Indiana Bamboo is based on the author's memories and imaginings of her early childhood in Ohio and the small town where she was later raised in Indiana.

Indiana Bamboo won the Tennessee Mountain Writers Excalibur Award, a one-time award for a first-time novelist, and First Prize in the category of Children’s Book-Fiction in the Connecticut Press Club Awards. Rosenberg began writing 28 Days of Neon, a New Voices in Children’s Literature: Tassy Walden Awards Middle Grade Finalist, while vacationing with extended family at a very rustic cabin in Maine, much like Neon’s family cabin.

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Ages 10 and older.

Meira Rosenberg received a master's degree in fine arts in creative writing from Manhattanville College, and she has taught English and writing at the University of Connecticut and Connecticut State Community College in Norwalk. She is also an attorney and a former Literary Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Properties Trust.

A Stamford resident, Rosenberg and her husband have three children who are now young adults. While they were growing up, they had almost as many pets as Indiana Bamboo does, including cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, goldfish, turtles, hermit crabs, a lab mix like Rainbow in 28 Days of Neon, and occasional garter snakes that were banished to a terrarium on the front porch. Now they live with one rambunctious pup who is as wise as Rainbow and who loves to dance.