Thursday PM Keynote Jan Cheripko

Keynote: Jan Cheripko
Jan Cheripko is an author who writes from personal experience. His involvement with teenagers at risk, his own high school football days, and his love of literature combine to make his novel, Imitate the Tiger, a work that breaks the usual stereotypes of sports plots and characterization. He teaches English and speaks to students, educators, and parents across the country about writing, literature, heroes, and at-risk students. “I tell my students what a mentor once told me: ‘Writing is an experiment in telling the truth.’ That simple statement is the basis of my philosophy of writing and teaching writing.”