![]() ![]() I made friends, got involved in activities, and gained back my confidence,” she said. “When I transferred to NIU, everything clicked. The campus was too big for her, and she felt like she did not fit in. Katzenberger came to NIU after a year at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where she really struggled. “I had my first introduction to writing stories in third grade and was hooked.” My mom always took me to the local library to check out tall stacks of books,” she said. “I was obsessed with reading from a very young age. While this pleased her parents, she was often teased by other children. Growing up as the youngest of eight children in Midlothian, Illinois, Katzenberger was an energetic and bubbly rule-follower. Her major was easy-journalism, with a minor in English-because she wanted to learn writing in all its forms. When Lisa Katzenberger transferred to NIU in 1993, she already knew she was going to be a writer. ![]() Lisa Katzenberger, ’96, has written three children’s books, with the newest coming out next February. ![]()
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