Ibi Zoboi Ibi Zoboi is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. She will be presented with the Maplewood Literary Award.

Ibi holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. As an educator, she is the recipient of several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti.

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.

She is also the co-author of the Walter Award-winning Punching the Air, with prison reform activist, Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, and editor of Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America. Her debut picture book, The People Remember, received a Coretta Scott King Book Honor Award.

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.

Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and currently lives in Maplewood with her husband and three children.

Copies of her books will be available for sale and signing.