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Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, writer, New York Times bestselling author, and former pharmaceutical metrologist, in that order. His debut middle-grade novel, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award. A Howard University graduate and a midwesterner now living in North Carolina, he enjoys impromptu dance sessions and Cheez-Its.
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Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is the queer, Latinx, nonbinary author of The Weight of Feathers, a William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist; Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; Wild Beauty, a Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Booklist best book of the year; Blanca & Roja, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; Dark and Deepest Red, an Indie Next List title; and The Mirror Season.
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Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, and its sequel, Crown of Thunder; Locus Award finalist War Girls; and his adult fiction debut, Riot Baby. He holds degrees from Yale, the Tisch School of the Arts, L’institut d’études politiques, and Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Omenana, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Nowhere Magazine and the Harvard Journal of African American Policy, among other places.
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Mark Oshiro is the award-winning author of Anger Is a Gift and Each of Us a Desert, and their forthcoming middle-grade debut The Insiders. When they are not writing, they run the online Mark Does Stuff universe and are trying to pet every dog in the world.
markoshiro.com
Natalie C. Parker is the author and editor of several books for young adults, among them the acclaimed Seafire trilogy. Her work has been included on the NPR Best Books list, the Indie Next List, and the TAYSHAS Reading List, and in Junior Library Guild selections. Natalie grew up in a navy family finding home in coastal cities from Virginia to Japan. Now she lives with her wife on the Kansas prairie.
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Rebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award–winning speculative fiction writer. Her novels include Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts (both part of the Sixth World series), Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, and the middle-grade novel Race to the Sun. Her latest novel is the epic fantasy Black Sun. Her YA short fiction can be found in various anthologies, including Hungry Hearts, A Phoenix First Must Burn, and Vampires Never Get Old. She lives with her husband and daughter in northern New Mexico.
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Victoria “V. E.” Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, Villains series, Monster of Verity duology, Cassidy Blake series, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Her work has received critical acclaim and been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, and more, translated into over two dozen languages, and optioned for television and film. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.
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Tara Sim is the author of the Timekeeper trilogy and Scavenge the Stars. She can typically be found wandering the wilds of the Bay Area, California. When she’s not chasing cats or lurking in bookstores, she writes books about magic, murder, and explosions.
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Nic Stone is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist Dear Martin and its companion novel, Dear Justyce. She is also the author of Odd One Out, an NPR Best Book and Rainbow Book List Top Ten selection, and Jackpot, a love-ish story that takes a searing look at economic inequality for young adults. Her middle-grade debut, Clean Getaway, is a New York Times bestseller and received two starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, which called it “an absolute firecracker of a book.” Nic lives in Atlanta with her adorable little family.
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About We Need Diverse Books
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) began as a hashtag in 2014 and has since grown into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with thirteen initiatives that advocate for increased diversity within the publishing industry—in the books we read, the authors and illustrators who create them, and the people who edit, design, produce, market, publicize, and sell them. Our mission is to create a world in which all young people can find themselves in the pages of a book.
With the stories in this anthology, you moved into magical worlds and found the magic inside you. You commanded the failing spaceship. You broke the powerful enchantment. You can change our worlds—both fictional and not—for good. This is the mission at WNDB. We invite you to learn more about WNDB programs at diversebooks.org.
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We Need Diverse Books anthology that started it all!
“Will resonate with any kid who’s ever felt different—which is to say, every kid.” —Time
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“There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred Review
“Should not be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred Review
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All it takes to rewrite the rules
is a little fresh ink.
“An all-star cast of talent.” —Paste Magazine
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“A powerful and varied collection deserving of shelf space in every library.” —Booklist, Starred Review
“Recommend to fans of [Nicola] Yoon, Angie Thomas, or those interested in social justice.” —SLJ, Starred Review
“Thirteen authors infuse fresh ink into the world of YA literature with a collection of stories that highlight the power and beauty of diversity.” —Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
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Not all heroes wear capes.
And sometimes, the hero is you.
“As with the two previous anthologies from We Need Diverse Books, this collection admirably succeeds in making available to all readers a wider and more representative range of American voices and protagonists.” —The Washington Post
“A stellar collection.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“There is a story for everyone.” —Booklist
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