Gary Salvner is a professor of English Education and chair of the English Department at Youngstown State University, where he teaches courses in young adult and children’s literature, English methods, and composition, and he also co-directs the YSU English Festival. He is the author of Presenting Gary Paulsen (Twayne, 1996), Playing the Moonlight (a young adult novel circulating to publishers), and numerous articles on English teaching and young adult literature.

Dr. Salvner is also co-editor with Virginia Monseau of Reading Their World: The Young Adult Novel in the Classroom, Second Edition (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2000). A former president and current executive secretary of ALAN, he was named an Ohio College English Language Arts Educator of the Year.