Jennifer Maruno

Jan 1, 2025 | slj.com | Jennifer Maruno |Myra Zarnowski

Gr 1-3–This story centers Hana, a young girl who lives in Japan, and how she deals with the effects of an earthquake followed by a tsunami that hits her village. The earthquake shakes her classroom, but the tsunami sweeps through the market where her mother works and destroys fishing boats, cars, trucks, and homes. Hana’s mother does not return. The girl’s grief is profound, and the way she deals with it is by painting one thousand birds.

Oct 12, 2024 | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Jessica Rose |Jennifer Maruno |Ben Robinson

Liz Worth explores nature, ancestry, memory and the supernatural in her new collection of poems Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea. She finds inspiration for her writing whenever she steps outside of her Hamilton home. Liz Worth is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer whose exploration of ritual and symbolism doesn’t end with her writing. She’s also a professional tarot reader, a practice that inspired her most recent collection of poetry, Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea.

Aug 27, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Maruno |Camille Garoche |Laura Hughes

Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom.