Kristin Bartley Lenz

Kristin Bartley Lenz‘s debut young adult novel, The Art of Holding On and Letting Go, was a 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection and a 2017–2018 Great Lakes Great Books Award honor book. Her fiction, essays, and articles have been published by Hunger Mountain, Great Lakes Review, The ALAN Review, and Writer’s Digest. She’s also a social worker and lives in Metro-Detroit with her husband and teen daughter. Learn more at kristinbartleylenz.com.