Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
NYT Bestselling Novelist
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
National Book Award Finalist
Kwame Alexander
#1 NYT Bestselling Author
Award-winning Memoirist
Newbery Medalist
Remica Bingham-Risher
Award-winning Author & Educator
Brian Broome
Award-winning Memoirist
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet MacArthur Genius Award
The Tradition
Mahogany L. Browne
Poet, Performer & Organizer National Book Award Longlist
Black Girl Magic
Kwame Dawes
Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner
Terrance Hayes
MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award
Douglas Kearney
National Book Award Longlist
Race, Culture & Identity
John Murillo
Award-winning Poet
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Deesha Philyaw
National Book Award Finalist
Black Queer Intersectionality
Nicole Sealey
Forward Prize
Former Executive Director of Cave Canem (2017-2019)
Danté Stewart
Acclaimed Memoirist
Belonging & Religion