Brandy Colbert
Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which was the winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the American Library Association's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Her other acclaimed books include Pointe, The Only Black Girls in Town, and Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, and her short stories and essays have appeared in several critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles. (Website: www.brandycolbert.com)
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with Maurene Goo and Nina LaCour
with Ibi Zoboi, Jason Reynolds, Kekla Magoon, Nic Stone, Renee Watson, Leah Henderson and Lamar Giles
Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
with Julie Murphy, Maurene Goo, Nina LaCour, Christine Day, Aisha Saeed and Martha Brockenbrough
with Julie Murphy, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Brenna Yovanoff, Garth Nix, E. K. Johnston, Lamar Giles and Veronica Roth
with Leigh Bardugo, Nina LaCour and Veronica Roth
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with Rebecca Barrow and Erika N. Turner