Category: BIPOC Representation

Matthew Guillory
Jennifer
Born in the Boston area to Guatemalan parents, Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA nov…
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Lucky
Lucky Diaz is a bilingual, songwriting, taco-eating, multi–Latin Grammy Award–winning, Grammy-nominated a…
Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee
Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet, activist and professor. She is the autho…
Duncan
Violet
Violet Duncan is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation. As an accomplished author, educator, dan…
Egawa
Chenoa
Chenoa Egawa is Coast Salish of the Lummi and S’Klallam Nations of Washington State. She is a published a…
Faruqi
Reem
When Reem Faruqi taught second grade, her favorite time was “Read Aloud” time. Now, her favorite time at …
Finney
Carolyn
Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer who is deeply interested in issues…
Ford
Jamie
Jamie Ford is a Northwest author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels. His debut, H…
Francis
John
John Francis, Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, Francis witnessed an oil spill…
Francis-Sharma
Lauren
Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of both Book of the Little Axe, the 2020 American Library Association…
Fuentes
Marcela
Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her essays and stories have appe…
Garrett
Camryn
Camryn Garrett is an NAACP Image Award-nominated author and filmmaker. Her first novel, Full Disclosure, …