Libby Gruner

Libby Gruner teaches English at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and younger daughter. She published a book, Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, in 2019, and her academic writing has appeared in many journals. Recently she has been writing and thinking a lot about pedagogy, and her piece about ungrading— “I No Longer Grade My Students’ Work—And I WIsh I Had Stopped Sooner —was reprinted in over 50 venues and landed her on several podcasts. Her current project is an exploration of the life of her grandmother, Caroline Averill Rose, a remarkable woman who left an enviable cache of letters and writings—a “Literary Mama” before her time.