In Memory: Charlene Willing McManis

Charlene Willing McManis,
photo by Pam VaughnBy Katherine Quimby
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

If the collective noun for writers is a plot, then several subplots are mourning the loss of one of their own.

Charlene Willing McManis died May 1, 2018, at home in the small Vermont town where she had lived for the past 30-plus years. In addition to her family and friends, Charlene leaves a Vermont writing community, a Native American writing community, and a forthcoming middle-grade novel, In...