Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
Young Adult
Deborah Vriend Van Duinen is an associate professor of English education at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She writes and teaches in the areas of English education, disciplinary literacy, and adolescent literacy. A recipient of the Towsley Research Scholar award in 2013 and the Michigan Reading Association’s Individual Literacy Award in 2016, Van Duinen is also the founder and director of Hope College’s Big Read Lakeshore and Little Read Lakeshore community-wide reading programs.
