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Rhoda Belleza, Empress of a Thousand Skies

  Estela Bernal, Can You See Me Now?

  Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life!

  Rudine Simms Bishop and Lois Mailou Jones, Wonders: The Best Children’s Poems of Effie Lee Newsome

  Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

  Tonya Bolden, Crossing Ebenezer Creek

  Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, Zora and Me

  Monica Brown and Sara Palacios, Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina

  JaNay Brown-Wood and Hazel Mitchell, Imani’s Moon

  Mahogany L. Browne and Jess X. Snow, Black Girl Magic

  Ashley Bryan, Freedom over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life

  Ahlam Bsharat, Code Name: Butterfly

  Marina Budhos, Watched

  Hilda Eunice Burgos, Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle

  Kheryn Callender, Hurricane Child

  Nicola I. Campbell and Julie Flett, A Day with Yayah

  Viola Canales, The Tequila Worm

  Meg Cannistra, The Trouble with Shooting Stars

  Angela Cervantes, Gaby, Lost and Found

  May-lee Chai, Tiger Girl

  Ruth Chan, Where’s the Party?

  Elsie Chapman, Along the Indigo

  Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton, Shiny Broken Pieces

  Sheela Chari, Vanished

  Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

  Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome, Young Pelé: Soccer’s First Star

  Brandy Colbert, Little & Lion

  Ying Chang Compestine, Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

  Zoraida Córdova, The Savage Blue

  Pat Cummings, Harvey Moon, Museum Boy

  Julie C. Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

  Sayantani DasGupta, The Serpent’s Secret

  Tanita S. Davis, Mare’s War

  Monalisa DeGross and Cheryl Hanna, Donovan’s Word Jar

  Alexandra Diaz, The Only Road

  Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

  Angela Dominguez, Maria Had a Little Llama/María tenía una llamita

  Sharon M. Draper, Stella by Starlight

  Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel

  Zetta Elliott and Shadra Strickland, Bird

  Susan Middleton Elya and Susan Guevara, Little Roja Riding Hood

  Margarita Engle, Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

  Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine

  Reem Faruqi and Lea Lyon, Lailah’s Lunchbox

  Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I’m In

  Jessika Fleck, The Castaways

  Julie Flett, Wild Berries

  Debbi Michiko Florence, Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

  Sundee T. Frazier, Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power

  Shannon Gibney, See No Color

  Lucía González and Lulu Delacre, The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos

  Xelena González and Adriana M. Garcia, All Around Us

  Maurene Goo, I Believe in a Thing Called Love

  Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist, The Great Migration: Journey to the North

  I. W. Gregorio, None of the Above

  Nikki Grimes, One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

  Glynis Guevara, Black Beach

  Guojing, The Only Child

  Virginia Hamilton, Second Cousins

  Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

  Vashti Harrison, Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

  Barbara Hathaway, Missy Violet & Me

  Leah Henderson, One Shadow on the Wall

  Tanuja Desai Hidier, Bombay Blues

  Naomi Hirahara, 1001 Cranes

  Nadia L. Hohn and Irene Luxbacher, Malaika’s Costume

  Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and James Ransome, Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

  Cheryl Willis Hudson and Cathy Johnson, Glo Goes Shopping

  Justina Ireland, Promise of Shadows

  Malathi Michelle Iyengar and Jamel Akib, Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown

  Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday’s Not Coming

  Angela Johnson, The First Part Last

  Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynn Sadler, Seeds of Change

  Traci L. Jones, Finding My Place

  Imani Josey, The Blazing Star

  N. Joy and Nancy Devard, The Secret Olivia Told Me

  Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing about Luck

  Suzanne Kamata, Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

  Hildi Kang, Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan

  Claire Kann, Let’s Talk about Love

  Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki, Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary

  Erin Entrada Kelly, Blackbird Fly

  Christine Kendall, Riding Chance

  Hena Khan, Amina’s Voice

  Rukhsana Khan and Nasrin Khosravi, A New Life

  Intisar Khanani, Sunbolt

  Aditi Khorana, Mirror in the Sky

  Uma Krishnaswami, Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh

  R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange

  Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

  Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

  Thanhhà Lai, Listen, Slowly

  C. B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick

  Fonda Lee, Jade City

  Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

  Julie Leung, The Mice of the Round Table: A Tail of Camelot

  Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

  Malinda Lo, Ash

  Marie Lu, Warcross

  Many Ly, Home Is East

  Kelly Starling Lyons, the Jada Jones series

  Samantha Mabry, All the Wind in the World

  Valynne E. Maetani, Ink and Ashes

  Kekla Magoon, Camo Girl

  Nilah Magruder, How to Find a Fox

  Sonia Manzano, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

  Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

  Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Under the Mesquite

  Janet McDonald, Harlem Hustle

  Patricia C. McKissack and Jerry Pinkney, Goin’ Someplace Special

  Anna-Marie McLemore, The Weight of Feathers

  Juana Medina, Juana & Lucas

  Meg Medina, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

  Rati Mehrotra, Markswoman

  Sandhya Menon, When Dimple Met Rishi

  Anna Meriano, Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble

  Ki-Wing Merlin, Weaving a Net Is Better Than Praying for Fish

  Sharee Miller, Don’t Touch My Hair!

  Marisa Montes and Yuyi Morales, Los Gatos Black on Halloween

  Pat Mora and Cecily Lang, A Birthday Basket for Tía

  Yuyi Morales, Viva Frida

  Shelia P. Moses, The Legend of Buddy Bush

  An Na, A Step from Heaven

  Marilyn Nelson and Hadley Hooper, How I Discovered Poetry

  Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Elizabeth Zunon, Don’t Call Me Grandma

  Christina Newhard and Robbie Bautista, Amina and the City of Flowers

  Eucabeth Odhiambo, Auma’s Long Run

  Ellen Oh, Spirit Hunters

  Nancy Osa, Cuba 15

  Emily X. R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

  Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard

  Amada Irma Pérez and Maya Christina Gonzalez, My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito

  Celia C. Pérez, The First Rule of Punk

  Bao Phi and Thi Bui, A Different Pond

  Dow Phumiruk and Ziyue Chen, Mela and the Elephant

  Andrea Davis Pinkney and Shane W. Evans, The Red Pencil

  Anita Poleahla and Emmett Navakuku, Celebrate My Hopi Toys

  Cindy Pon, Want

  Connie Porter, Imani All Mine

  Dawn Quigley, Apple in the Middle

  Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

  Sofia Quintero, Show and Prove

  Jewell Parker
Rhodes, Bayou Magic

  Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, 8th Grade Superzero

  Karuna Riazi, The Gauntlet

  Caroline Tung Richmond, The Only Thing to Fear

  Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach

  Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

  Lilliam Rivera, The Education of Margot Sanchez

  Cindy L. Rodriguez, When Reason Breaks

  Katheryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrison, Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

  Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís, The Dreamer

  Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

  Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

  N. H. Senzai, Shooting Kabul

  Wendy Wan-Long Shang, The Great Wall of Lucy Wu

  Kashmira Sheth, Blue Jasmine

  Sheetal Sheth and Jessica Blank, Always Anjali

  Irene Smalls and Colin Bootman, Don’t Say Ain’t

  Cynthia Leitich Smith, Hearts Unbroken

  Hope Anita Smith and E. B. Lewis, Keeping the Night Watch

  Nic Stone, Odd One Out

  Misa Sugiura, It’s Not Like It’s a Secret

  Carmen Tafolla and Amy Córdova, Fiesta Babies

  Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

  Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue

  Liara Tamani, Calling My Name

  Susan Tan and Dana Wulfekotte, Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire

  Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and Adjoa J. Burrowes, Destiny’s Gift

  Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

  Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

  Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

  Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper, The Blacker the Berry

  Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Ebony Glenn, Mommy’s Khimar

  Chieri Uegaki and Qin Leng, Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin

  Samantha R. Vamos and Rafael López, The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred

  Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance

  Booki Vivat, Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom

  Quvenzhané Wallis and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, A Night Out with Mama

  Andrea Wang and Alina Chau, The Nian Monster

  Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

  Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

  Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez, Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

  Ebony Joy Wilkins, Sellout

  Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped

  Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins, Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

  Brenda Woods, A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

  Jacqueline Woodson, Feathers

  Kat Yeh, The Way to Bea

  Paula Yoo, Good Enough

  Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

  Hyewon Yum, Puddle

  F. Zia and Ken Min, Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji

  Ibi Zoboi, Pride

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  JENNIFER BAKER is a contributing editor to Electric Literature and creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast. In 2017, she was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant (as well as their award for Artistic Excellence) for Nonfiction Literature. Her writing has appeared in Newtown Literary (for which her short story “The Pursuit of Happiness” was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize), Boston Literary Magazine, Eclectic Flash, The Offing, Poets & Writers, the Other Stories podcast, Kweli Journal, and The Female Complaint anthology from Shade Mountain Press. She has also contributed to Forbes.com, Literary Hub, The Billfold, School Library Journal, and Bustle, among other online publications. Her website is jennifernbaker.com.

  MIA ALVAR’s collection of short stories, In the Country, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the University of Rochester’s Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

  CARLEIGH BAKER is a Canadian writer whose debut short story collection, Bad Endings, was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work has also appeared in subTerrain, PRISM International, Joyland, and This Magazine.

  NANA EKUA BREW-HAMMOND is the author of Powder Necklace (Washington Square Press, 2010), which Publishers Weekly called “a winning debut.” Named among thirty-nine of the most promising African writers under thirty-nine, her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of Sahara (Bloomsbury, 2014). She was shortlisted for a Miles Morland Writing Scholarship in 2014 and 2015, and has contributed fiction to African Writing, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sunday Salon, and the short story collection Woman’s Work. Her think pieces have appeared at online destinations including Ebony.com and TheGrio.com; and she has contributed commentary on everything from Michelle Obama’s role in the US presidential campaign to Nelson Mandela’s legacy on MSNBC, NY1, SaharaTV, and Arise TV. In April 2015, she was the opening speaker at TEDxAccra. Brew-Hammond coleads a monthly writing fellowship at the Center for Faith & Work. Also noted for her personal style, Brew-Hammond’s fashion looks have appeared in the street style slideshows and print editions of outlets including New York magazine, Essence magazine, Fashionista.com, TheSartorialist.com, and the New York Times. Recently, she cofounded the made-in-Ghana outerwear line Exit 14. She is currently at work on a new novel. Learn more at nanabrewhammond.com.

  GLENDALIZ CAMACHO is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee and 2015 Write a House finalist. She has been an Artist in Residence at Jentel, Caldera, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Hedgebrook, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lanesboro Arts, the Anderson Center, and Kerouac House. An alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) 2010 and 2013 Fiction Workshops and the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop, her work appears in The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women (Shade Mountain Press), All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press), the Brooklyn Rail, the Butter, and Kweli Journal, among others.

  ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, coming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, and Out, among others. He is the winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose, and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and of residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri, and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College.

  MITCHELL S. JACKSON’s debut novel The Residue Years won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award in fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House, as well as in the bestselling essay anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (edited by Jesmyn Ward). His new book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family will be published by Scribner in 2019.

  YIYUN LI’s most recent book is Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel The Vagrants won the gold-medal California Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second collection, was a finalist for the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Kinder than Solitude, her latest novel, was published to critical acclaim.

  ALLISON MILLS is a Cree and settler writer, archivist, and librarian with a thing about ghost
s. She was featured in Apex Magazine’s Indigenous American fantasists special issue, and her critical work has appeared in the Looking Glass and Archivaria, where it won the 2016 Dodds Prize. She currently lives and works on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish land in Vancouver, British Columbia.

  COURTTIA NEWLAND’s first novel, The Scholar, was published in 1997. Further critically acclaimed work includes Society Within (1999), Snakeskin (2002), The Dying Wish (2006), Music for the Off-Key (2006), and A Book of Blues (2011). He is coeditor of IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) and coedited with Monique Roffey the collection Tell Tales 4: The Global Village (2009). Courttia’s short stories have been featured in many anthologies. His career has encompassed both screen- and playwriting; plays include B Is for Black and an adaptation of Euripides’s Women of Troy. His novel The Gospel According to Cane was published by Akashic Books (US) and Telegram (UK) in February 2013. A collection of speculative fiction, Cosmogramma, will be published in 2019.

  DENNIS NORRIS II is a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2016 Tin House Scholar, and a 2015 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. They are the author of AWST Collection—Dennis Norris II, published by AWST Press, and other writing appears in Apogee Journal and SmokeLong Quarterly. Their story “Where Every Boy Is Known and Loved” was recently named a finalist for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Anthology, forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books, and they currently serve as fiction editor at Apogee Journal, assistant fiction editor at The Rumpus, and cohost of the popular podcast Food 4 Thot. You can find more information at their website, www.dennisnorrisii.com.

  JASON REYNOLDS is crazy. About stories. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award Finalist, a Kirkus Prize winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award winner and honoree, a Newbery Honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. His debut novel, When I Was the Greatest, was followed by Boy in the Black Suit and All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), and then As Brave as You, Miles Morales, Long Way Down, For Every One, and the Track series. You can find his ramblings at www.jasonwritesbooks.com.

  NELLY ROSARIO was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She was named a “Writer on the Verge” by the Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her first novel, Song of the Water Saints, won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award.