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
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
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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.