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Kari Lavelle
Kari Lavelle is the author of We Move the World (HarperCollins, 2021) as well as the forthcoming An Ode to Grapefruit – a picture book biography of James Earl Jones (Knopf, 2024). She is a member of SCBWI and 12×12 and enjoys taking classes at the Writing Barn.