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After graduating from UC Berkeley and earning a Master’s Degree in English Literature from UCLA, Planaria Price taught English as a Second Language to adult immigrants in Los Angeles. She has written several ESL textbooks on folktales and lectured at numerous conferences. In addition to this, Planaria has worked with her husband to save and restore over 30 Victorian and Craftsman homes in her historic Los Angeles neighborhood. Claiming My Place, awarded The Junior Library Guild Selection of 2018, is her first book for young adults.