Join us as we welcome award-winning poet and author Benjamin Alire Sáenz for our Summer Reading Author series! 

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is the award-winning author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which was a Printz Honor Book, the Stonewall Award winner, the Pura Belpré Award winner, the Lambda Literary Award winner, and a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. He has also written numerous other award-winning children's, teen, adult, and poetry books. 

He is a retired Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas in El Paso as well as an artist.

Registration is required and will open two weeks before the event. Every member of your group must be registered.
If you are interesting in registering a group such as a school or summer camp, please contact HPL.YouthServices@houstontx.gov (if possible, before registration opens).