Vicki Vinton
Vicki Vinton is a staff developer and consultant, specializing in lower, middle and high school literacy. Before joining Literacy Support Services, she was affiliated with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, where over the years she has collaborated with such esteemed educators as Shelley Harwayne, Randy Bomer, Joanne Hindley, and Georgia Heard, and she has worked in school districts throughout New York City and the country. Along with co-author Mary Ehrenworth, she wrote The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language (Heinemann, 2005), and she is the author of The Jungle Law (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), which People Magazine called a “lyrical, elegant first novel.” A regular presenter at the yearly National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts’ Artist Fellowship in Fiction, she has given workshops and taught at summer institutes across the country and was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing at Queens College/CUNY in New York City. Additionally as a practicing and award-winning writer, she brings a passion for language and literature to every workshop she leads. http://tomakeaprairie.wordpress.com
