
Jacqueline Woodson is the author of a number of books for children, young adults and adults including If You Come Softly, I Hadn’t Meant To Tell You This, Autobiography of A Family Photo, From The Notebooks of Melanin Sun, and The Other Side. She is the recipient of two Coretta Scott King Honors, two Jane Addams Peace Awards, three Lambda Literary Awards, The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, a Granta Best Writer Under Forty Award, and a number of American Library Association Best Book Awards. Jacqueline teaches creative writing in the Graduate Program at City College and to young people from underserved communities at the National Book Foundation’s Summer Writing Camp.