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P.O.V. Inside The Creative Trenches

Fully armed with imagination and a yearning for truth, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo will discuss her breaking the four year no-win streak for the Delacorte Dell Yearling Award, how she did it and the impact it has made on her career.  A professional filmmaker, Charlton-Trujillo will discuss the new wave of promotion for children's books and a few do's and don'ts. 

Bring a 1st pages, double-spaced for Charlton-Trujillo to share and discuss.

Bio
The small-town Texas native has worked on over thirty short films and, most recently, edited the feature film Night Fliers. The multi award-winning artist began her career at Killer Films and later worked with directors Betty Thomas, Douglas McGrath, Lucy Walker, and most recently Sara St. Martin-Lynne.

In 2004, Charlton-Trujillo won the prestigious Delacorte Dell Yearling Award for her first novel Prizefighter En Mi Casa. Prizefighter has also won the Parents' Choice Silver Honor and been named a National Council for the Social Studies Notable Book and featured on the NYC Public Library Teenage List.

Her second novel, Feels Like Home, received critical praise and earned her yet another NYC Public Library Teenage List Award.  Charlton-Trujillo's third novel has been optioned by Last Look Films as a feature that she is slated to co-write and direct.

She recently created a original one hour drama concept, Fallen, that is being shopped in Los Angeles and often collaborates with CGI Effects and director of photography JJ Painter.