Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac Barnett now lives near San Francisco. He's on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students, in Los Angeles. 826LA offers free drop-in tutoring, workshops, field trips and a range of engaging methods in which students can benefit from its services. Mac founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time-travellers, which sells a range of things imported both from the past and the future - such as Viking odorant, robot milk, mammoth chunks and Ricky Martin lunch boxes. The store also sells anthologies of work by 826LA writing students, issues of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly and other McSweeney's publications. He is also the author of three children’s books – Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, Guess Again, and the first book in the Brixton Brothers series, The Brixton Brothers #1: The Case Of The Case Of Mistaken Identity.
http://www.macbarnett.com/ - Mac's website.
http://www.826la.org/ - The 826LA website.
Mac Barnett will be featured at the following events:
Friday 29 January, 3.30 PM- 4.30 PM, Maritime Museum: Timothy Mcsweeney's Concerns
Children's Festival
Saturday 30 January, 1.30 PM- 2.30 PM, Martin Wickramasinghe Museum: Kid Detectives
Saturday 30 January, 3 PM- 4.30 PM, Martin Wickramasinghe Musuem: Writing Your Own Stories
Sunday 31 January, 10 AM- 11 AM, Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya: Kid Detectives
Tuesday 2 February- Schools Day
Please click on programme for more details about these events!