Winsor Welcomes Guest Speaker Lisa Moore Ramée, author of A GOOD KIND OF TROUBLE

October 8, 2021—Students entering Classes I and II read A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée over the summer and had the opportunity to talk with the author via Zoom about her creative journey and inspiration while writing the book. Joining the author virtually from the Wildcat room, students came prepared with many questions for the author about her experience writing the book, such as: 

Ramée talked about when she first started writing, at “a time when she didn’t see many stories about young black girls.” Ramée explained it was important for her characters to reflect her family (and all kinds of diversity). The book, featuring a young black girl named Shayla, is about a girl who wants to follow the rules—until she attends a powerful protest for Black Lives Matter and discovers that some rules should be broken. Ramée is most proud when someone says to her that after reading A Good Kind of Trouble they really understand the Black Lives Matter movement. 

On storytelling, Ramée had some questions for students to consider as they embark on their own journeys. The answers to these questions are the “nuggets of really fantastic, wonderful stories.”

Lisa Moore Ramée was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in Northern California, with her husband and two children. She earned a B.A. in speech communications from San Francisco State and an M.A. in English literature focusing on Creative Writing from Cal State East Bay. She worked for several years in publishing at the Walt Disney Company, first in Comics, and then with Licensed Publishing. A Good Kind of Trouble, her first novel, received critical acclaim, garnered three starred reviews (Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and School Library Journal) and became a bestseller. It appeared on numerous “best of” lists for 2019.