Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award Finalist; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Book Award winner; Pride; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich; Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel; and the Walter Dean Myers Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning Punching the Air, co-written with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Book Award for her picture book The People Remember and her middle grade biography of Octavia Butler, Star Child. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family.

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