This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more.
Sarah Minslow is an Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. She specializes in human rights education, war and genocide in children's literature, and refugee narratives. She co-edited the book Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? (2021) and contributed to volumes such as Childhood Traumas: Narratives and Representations (2019), Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places Inspired by Children's Narratives (2022), Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between (2024) and Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom (2024). She is a member of the board for the Children's Literature Association and also a member of the grant-funded project 'The Art of Peacekeeping'. She earned her PhD from the University of Newcastle (Australia).
Stephen M. Zimmerly is associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis.
