Dominique Bernier-cormier Padma Venkatraman Padma Venkatraman is the internationally acclaimed author of The Bridge Home (Global Read Aloud); Safe Harbor (ALA Notable) and A Time to Dance (1st… John McCrae Born into a military family in Guelph, Ontario, John McCrae (1872-1918) published his first poems while studying medicine at the University of… Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian…