Modernizing the Canon: Amplifying Silenced Voices in To Kill a Mockingbird

Meredith Newlin is the author of Captured Fireflies: Truths, Mistakes, And Other Gifts of Being an English Teacher, a #1 New Release In Teaching & Learning on Amazon. She is working on her next book about thriving as educators in an era of uncertainty. Newlin is in her 14th year teaching English in North Carolina Public Schools. She considers receiving the "Most Motivational" award from the 8th grade class of 2014 her greatest professional accomplishment. She has also taught at Rockingham Community College and Duke University Young Writers Camp. She is a contributor to Jeff Moore's Everyday Power Blog and will be a presenter at The Teacher Self-Care Conference in Atlanta in June 2019. She is a graduate of LaVenson Press Studios' Women’s Writing Intensive and Full-Length Manuscript Workshop. Her writing has been featured in Firefly Ridge Literary Magazine and NC Boating Lifestyle Magazine, as well as several custom publications, including in-flight airline magazines such as United Airlines Hemispheres and Entertainment Preview; Delta Sky, AT&T Wireless Recognitions website; Carlson Hospitality Voyageur, and American Cancer Society Triumph magazine. She is a native of North Carolina and holds a Bachelor of Arts from UNC-Asheville. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her family.