Jacqueline Woodson – American 21st-century author, writer of Brown Girl Dreaming and Another Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Award. Her work explores race, childhood, and female identity. She is celebrated as a poetic voice blending verse and prose for readers of all ages.
📖 Brown Girl Dreaming won the National Book Award and is now taught in schools. 🖊 She writes for children, teens, and adults, adapting form but keeping core themes. 🏳️🌈 Woodson openly addresses her LGBTQ+ identity in her life and books. 🏆 Named U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate in 2018. 📚 Served as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. 🎶 Her prose is often compared to jazz for its rhythm and flow. 👩🏾🎓 Grew up between the American South and New York City, shaping her stories. 🌍 Her works have been translated into dozens of languages. 📺 Several of her books have been adapted for stage and screen. 😅 As a child, she secretly wrote under her desk while teachers thought she was daydreaming.