![]() ![]() She’s worked for arts organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Community Word Project as a writer-in-residence and teaching artist in New York City public schools.īorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and their three children. ![]() As an educator, she was the recipient of several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, the Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. Ibi has appeared on CBS This Morning and The Reid Out alongside Yusef Salaam, and on PBS’s Book View Now. Her most recent books are STAR CHILD: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER, and OKOYE TO THE PEOPLE: A BLACK PANTHER NOVEL for Marvel. Her debut picture book, THE PEOPLE REMEMBER, received a Coretta Scott King Book Honor Award. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. ![]() Ibi is the editor of BLACK ENOUGH: STORIES OF BEING YOUNG & BLACK IN AMERICA. Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. ![]() Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, which was also shortlisted for the U.K.’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Times Book Prize-winning PUNCHING THE AIR with prison reform activist Dr. Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of AMERICAN STREET, a National Book Award Finalist PRIDE, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH, her middle-grade debut. She is also the co-author of the Walter Award and L.A. ![]()
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