Northern Westchester Branch Manager, Writing Instructor

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Léna began teaching workshops with Writopia in the fall of 2009. Léna's first YA novel, Edges, is to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2010. Her inspiration and touchstone is her late grandmother, author Madeleine L’Engle, who was able to transform the solitary nature of writing into a sacred sense of community where her art and the art of others could flourish. Léna received her BA in English from Barnard College, and her MA in Drama Therapy from NYU. Léna has  created two writing workshops for the public education program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she works part-time as an educator. She is also a mentor with Girls Write Now, a non-profit organization serving at-risk high school girls.