Ariel Aberg-Riger
Visual Storyteller
2023 Kirkus Prize
2024 YALSA Nonfiction Finalist
Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Kwame Alexander
#1 NYT Bestselling Author
Award-winning Memoirist
Newbery Medalist
Mahogany L. Browne
Poet, Performer & Organizer National Book Award Longlist
Black Girl Magic
Safia Elhillo
Award-winning Poet
Arab American Book Award
National Book Award Longlist
Carrie Fountain
Award-winning Poet
YA: I’m Not Missing
Joy Harjo
US Poet Laureate (2019-22)
NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award
Memoirs: Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior
Juan Felipe Herrera
US Poet Laureate (2015-17)
Performer & Activist
Candice Iloh
Novelist & Poet
National Book Award Finalist
Malinda Lo
Award-winning Fiction & Nonfiction Writer
National Book Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award
Taylor Mali
Performance Poet
What Teachers Make
Marilyn Nelson
Poet-as-Historian
Frost Poetry Prize
Erika L. Sánchez
#1 NYT Bestselling Author
Novelist, Memoirist & Poet
Sun Yung Shin
Poet, Memoirist & Cultural Worker
Minnesota Book Award
Maggie Smith
Award-winning Poet
NYT Bestselling Memoirist
Author of Good Bones
Elisabet Velasquez
Award-winning Poet & Fiction Writer
Ibi Zoboi
Award-winning YA Novelist
National Book Award Finalist
American Street