Ebony LaDelle is the author of Love Radio—which was named one of People magazine’s best books of the summer, a 2023 Audie Award finalist, a 2023 Michigan Notable Book, one of Apple Books’ best books of the year in 2022, an Amazon Editors’ Pick, and was featured on The Today Show. A Baldwin Fellow, she’s also the author of the young adult romance This Could Be Forever, and editor of the anthology You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs. Prior to being an author, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, among others.

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