Tonya Cherie Hegamin

Tonya C. Hegamin is a queer, disabled award-winning author and educator of Black and Native American (Lenape/Nanticoke) descent, best known for her young adult novels such as Willow, M+O 4EVR, and Pemba’s Song, as well as the children's book Most Loved In All the World, which have earned honors from the New York Public Library, the Christopher Foundation, and features in USA Today and The Washington Post.Tonya Cherie Hegamin website, CUNY Medgar Evers, Bookreporter. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children from The New School, serves as a tenured Associate Professor at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College, and has worked as a patient advocate since 1998.CUNY Medgar Evers, Tonya Cherie Hegamin website.