Dr. Jane Hansen, professor emerita in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and former director of the Central Virginia Writing Project, has decades of experience as a researcher and teacher in the field of writing instruction. Her expertise is in writing across the K–16 curriculum.
Jane Yolen has written stories about toads in space, dinosaurs at bedtime, and much more. In this exclusive video interview with Reading Rockets, Jane Yolen recites the first poem she ever wrote and talks about how to encourage creative writing in kids.