She has worked in artist-in-residence programs with funding from grantors including the Maryland State Arts Council and the Howard County Arts Council. A 2008 Washington Post Magazine article states that “Educators who have worked with Danley say that what she offers is invaluable, not only because she's able to effectively teach the basics of writing, but because she manages to give kids who might have pain in their hearts a tool for release…” Her work with children who are suffering loss has been featured in a TedEd talk, a segment on CBS 60 Minutes, and in articles in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. Her bio on that site states that “she has turned her pain and joy, courage and optimism into pages and pages of slam poetry that she shares onstage and in the classroom with children all over the country.” She has been a member of the Young Audiences’ artist roster for over a decade. Gayle Danley is an International Poetry Slam Champion and former Young Audiences of Maryland’s National Artist of the Year. Her latest book News from Me, Lucy McGee was published in November 2018 by Holiday House.Ģ018 William G. She is also the co-founder of Firefly Shadow Theater where she designs puppets, and wrote and directed shows. Amato can also be seen playing her music and performing her songs throughout the Maryland-Washington, D.C.
When she is not writing, Amato does "an insane amount of appearances and teaching." All school assemblies, residencies, classroom workshops, and workshops for teachers are just some of the avenues she uses to connect with her readers and the community. Booklist and School Library Journal both gave The Word Eater favorable reviews.
However, as Flip consumes the words, the actual objects represented by the word disappear. Among her awards are the Heekin Foundation's Fellowship for Children's Novel in Progress, the Washington Post's Grants in the Arts, The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County's Artists in Schools/Artists in Residence Grant, and The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators National Magazine Writing Award and Nonfiction Book Grant.Īmato's first book The Word Eater, published in 2000, portrays a sixth-grade girl named Lerner who discovers Flip, a word-eating bookworm. Since then she has become an award-winning children's and YA author, poet, playwright, and songwriter. Mary Amato started writing at age seven when her mother gave her a journal to write about her family's trip to California.
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