Leader, Jessica

Jessica Leader is the author of Nice and Mean (Simon & Schuster), a middle-grade novel about seventh-grade girls. A long-time English teacher, she has coached students to write award-winning pieces for contests such as GLSEN’s No Name-Calling Week, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and DC’s One World Foundation. She earned her BA from Brown University and her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.