Bestselling author Alan Gratz will be the Thomas and Carol Gay Memorial Lecturer at the 2025 Youngstown State University English Festival, set for April 9-11 on the YSU campus. Gratz, the author of 20 young adult books, regularly appears on the New York Times bestseller lists. His book “Refugee”, one of the featured titles for the Festival, stayed on the list for five years.
Two recent Ohio Poets of the Year, Quartez Harris and Rikki Santer, will also appear at the 2025 Festival.
