APPR Author and Writing Workshop: Stacy Jensen

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Event Details Join Pikes Peak Library District for a picture book writing workshop and discussion with Stacy Jensen, author of Before I Lived Here, a 2026 All Pikes Peak Reads selection. The workshop will delve into the ins and outs of writing a picture book and discuss why picture books are important for all ages. This program is being offered to commemorate the Colorado 150 and US 250 anniversaries. About the author: Stacy S. Jensen is a children’s book author with a passion for history, research, and exploring new topics like she did as a newspaper journalist. Her debut picture book BEFORE I LIVED HERE was written while she lived in Colorado—inspired by her neighborhood. The book is illustrated by Victo Ngai and published by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House. She lives in Georgia with her family. When she’s not writing, she enjoys time with family, reading, and paper quilling. She volunteers to support literacy, youth, and children’s programs. Outside Stacy loves experimenting with various s’mores combinations and inside she makes cookies, cupcakes, and chocolate treats. She has two Vizslas, who walk a human daily. Stacy is represented by Deborah Warren at East West Literary Agency About the book: Journey backward in time through all the layers of history that led up to your neighborhood’s existence. The building you live in has probably been around longer than you, so you may think it’s been there forever. But no matter where you live, a whole lot happened before your home was built. In Before I Lived Here, a boy peels away each layer of the history of the land his house sits on. Follow along from the construction of the neighborhood back to the planning of it; from the ranchers and log cabins that predated it, back to the region’s Indigenous people and their eviction from the land . . . all the way back to the time of the dinosaurs. Before I Lived Here reminds us that history isn’t something that happens far away, to other people—it’s in our own…

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