National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her
New York Times bestselling memoir
Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include
The Other Side,
Each Kindness, the Caldecott Honor Book
Coming on Home Soon; the Newbery Honor winners
Feathers,
Show Way, and
After Tupac and D Foster, and
Miracle’s Boys which received the
LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award and was adapted into a miniseries directed by Spike Lee. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature, the winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, a 2016 National Book Award finalist for her adult novel
Another Brooklyn, and received the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.