Ann Clare LeZotte is the author of the 2021 Schneider Family Book Award–winning Show Me a Sign and the stand-alone companion Set Me Free (both Scholastic). Now a full-time writer, Ann worked for many years as a youth librarian in Gainesville, Florida, with a focus on marginalized communities and ASL literacy
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Ann LeZotte
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Gainesville, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 1999
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Ann LeZotte worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…