The Shape A Wing Makes: Poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with art by Freeman Ng

Fran Claggett-Holland has been a lifelong educator, teacher of educators, and poet. She's authored numerous books about the teaching of writing, including Drawing Your Own Conclusions and the Daybooks series of textbooks on critical reading and writing, as well as the following collections of her poetry: - Black Birds and Other Birds - Crow Crossings - Moments with Madge - Consciousness of Stone - Under the Wings of the Crow Freeman Ng is the author of: - Basho's Haiku Journeys, a haiku picture book - The House We Sheltered In and The Masks We Wore, a pandemic picture book - The forthcoming Ripples, a picture book about gravitational waves and friendship (Neal Porter Books, Summer 2026) - The forthcoming Bridge Across The Sky, a novel-in-verse about the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900's (Atheneum Books For Young Readers, Fall 2024) as well as a daily haiku feed (www.HaikuDiem.com) and weekly political comic strip (www.Trumpbert.com). www.AuthorFreeman.com

Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer who's now writing full time. Though he lived most of his life a twenty-minute ferry ride from Angel Island and his father entered the country through a process similar to the one described in Freeman's Bridge Across the Sky (except through Seattle), he never thought about the station and its history until he heard about the poems on the walls. Then he knew he had to write about them, and that it had to be in verse.