JM Farkas
JM Farkas is a News & Entertainment Writer for Romper.
Her bylines have appeared in Fatherly, Electric Literature, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, and The New York Times.
She is the author of poetry erasures, Be Brave: An Unlikely Manual for Erasing Heartbreak and [the little] MERMAID, an illustrated revision of Hans Christian Andersen. Her first picture book biography, STARFLOWER: The Making of a Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, co-written with Emily Vizzo, will be published by Abrams in 2023.
She lives in New York with her daughter, Lucy.
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Do we need to cancel Fairy Tales? Not so fast! Here are some modern options.
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This election is big. But for your child, future elections will matter even more. These books help.
