The English Department's 2021-2022 Marianne D. McComb Reading Series on Race, Craft and Imagination presents Lilliam Rivera!

Lilliam Rivera is the award-winning author of the young adult novel Never Look Back, which retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, through the experiences of Puerto Rican teenagers in the Bronx. The book won the American Library Association's Pura Belpré Honor, and you can read the NPR review of the book here. Rivera has also written three other young adult novels including the new young adult science fiction novel, We Light Up the Sky. She wrote the graphic novel for DC Comics Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story.