Kekla Magoon
award-winning author of novels for young readers and non-fiction books on historical topics; serves on the Writers’ Council for the National Writing Project; faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts; received Margaret A. Edwards Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, John Steptoe New Talent Award, three Coretta Scott King Honors, the Walter Award Honor, and an NAACP Image Award; long listed for the National Book Award