Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who has written award-winning books for children, young adults, and adults. She has won the Coretta Scott King Award multiple times as well as the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Newbery Honor, and many other distinctions. Her memoir in verse Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) won the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and was a Newbery Honor book. Before the Ever After (2020) won the Coretta Scott King Award. Woodson's work spans picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction, and consistently explores themes of race, identity, family, and belonging in American life. Her other celebrated works include Miracle's Boys, Locomotion, Feathers, and adult novels including Another Brooklyn (2016). She was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation in 2015–2017 and the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2018–2019. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 2020. Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.