Matt Goldman is a New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award winning TV writer. He has been nominated for the Shamus Award, the Nero Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and was named to the Texas Lariat Reading… Continue Reading
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Hall, Michael
Michael Hall grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., and lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minn. He is the creator of numerous acclaimed picture books for children, including ”Frankencrayon,” ”Red: A Crayon’s Story,” ”My Heart Is Like a Zoo,” ”Perfect Square” and ”It’s an Orange… Continue Reading
Keith, Tony
Tony Keith Jr. is a Black American gay poet, spoken word artist, and hip-hop educational leader from Washington, D.C. He is author of the YA memoir in verse How the Boogeyman Became a Poet. Tony’s writings have appeared in the… Continue Reading
Jamal, Zakiya
Zakiya N. Jamal was born in Queens, raised in Long Island, and currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. In other words, she’s a New Yorker through and through. She holds a B.A. in English from Georgetown University and an M.F.A. in… Continue Reading
Edim, Glory
Glory Edim is a literary tastemaker, author and advocate for diverse voices in literature. In 2015, she founded Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG), an online platform and book club dedicated to celebrating the literary works of Black women authors and creating… Continue Reading
Greyling, Asha
Asha Greyling lives in Maryland with her furry four-footed muses, Gwin the terrier and a guinea pig who thinks she’s a cat. She likes nothing more than swinging in the playground (unless the local children scare her off), collecting acorns… Continue Reading
Bukai, Zeeva
Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel and raised in New York City. Her honors include a Fellowship at the New York Center for Fiction and residencies at Hedgebrook, and Byrdcliffe AIR program. Her stories are forthcoming in “Smashing the Tablets:… Continue Reading
Chima, Cinda Williams
Cinda Williams Chima nearly failed first grade because she was always daydreaming. By junior high, she got in trouble for writing novels in class. Yet the magic of books took her from first grade failure to first generation college graduate… Continue Reading
Hameroff, Lindsay
Lindsay Hameroff is a writer, humorist, and former English teacher raised in Baltimore, Md., and based in Harrisburg, Pa. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Weekly Humorist, and fan letters to Harry Styles. She is the author… Continue Reading
Thompson, Aggie Blum
Before turning to fiction, Aggie Blum Thompson covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Aggie is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and… Continue Reading