Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Raymond Antrobus
Rathbone Folio Prize
Communication, Connection, Cultural Inheritance
Mahogany L. Browne
Poet, Performer & Organizer 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
Cristina García
Novelist, Poet, YA Author
Cuban-American Writer
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
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
Maggie Smith
Award-winning Poet
NYT Bestselling Memoirist
Author of Good Bones
Ibi Zoboi
Award-winning YA Novelist
National Book Award Finalist
American Street