Jacqueline WoodsonΒ (www.jacquelinewoodson.com)Β is the recipient of the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Childrenβs Literature Legacy Award. SheΒ was the 2018β2019 National Ambassador for Young Peopleβs Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young Peopleβs Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for herΒ New York TimesΒ bestselling memoirΒ Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult booksΒ Red at the Bone, aΒ New York TimesΒ bestseller, andΒ Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist.Β Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English.Β She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books includeΒ New York TimesΒ bestsellersΒ The Day You BeginΒ andΒ Harbor Me;Β The Other Side,Β Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor bookΒ Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winnersΒ Feathers,Β Show Way, andΒ After Tupac and D Foster; andΒ Miracle's Boys, which received theΒ LA TimesΒ Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.