Posts Tagged ‘author of the week’
Poet Hannah Sawyerr says a writer’s work should ‘make the reader feel seen’
Hannah Sawyerr is a Sierra Leonean-American author and an MFA candidate at the New School for creative writing. In the year 2016, Sawyerr was named the Youth Poet Laureate of…
Read MoreTeen author Maryam Muhammad says everyone must live their truth
Maryam Azeeza Muhammad is a 19-year-old journalism student and poet attending Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of the book Bantu Knots and Butterflies: A Written Reflection, a…
Read MoreVanessa Baden Kelly explains developing characters as a writer and an actress
Vanessa Baden Kelly is an acclaimed actor, screenwriter, and author. Her career began as a child actress on the beloved TeenNick show “Kenan & Kel” and continued acting in movies…
Read MoreNovelist Okey Ndibe describes the challenge of writing during a pandemic
Okey Ndibe is an award-winning author and essayist. He published his first novel, Arrows of Rain, in 2000. The New York Times listed Ndibe’s second novel, Foreign Gods Inc., as…
Read MoreBestselling writer Tochi Onyebuchi pens memoir
Author of the popular sci-fi and fantasy novels Riot Baby and Beast Made of Night, novelist Tochi Onyebuchi is known for depicting complex social issues in fantastical worlds and settings. Readers…
Read MoreBrit Bennett’s ‘The Mothers’ conveys the world through the eyes of Black women
Life comes at young people fast and often before they are ready to receive it. This fact is doubly true for young, Black women, who are often expected to carry…
Read MoreAuthor Ingrid Crumby shares inspiration behind ‘Hadassah and the Tree of Life’
As a child growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Ingrid Crumby learned to escape and survive the hardships she faced through her vivid imagination. Today, the author is using her imagination…
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