First Draft Episode #256: Elizabeth Acevedo
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Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land, out now!
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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
A handful of Elizabeth’s viral poems
Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Jones are both poets who had one woman shows, which inspired Elizabeth in college
Nikki Giovanni, Tupac, Lucille Clifton were some poets who shaped Elizabeth
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, and Red At the Bone
Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster, Scorpions, and dozens more books
Julia Alvarez, author of Before We Were Free, Return to Sender, and more
Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and many more
Phil Bildner, author of High Five For Glenn Burke, and Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
Angela Johnson’s Coretta Scott King-winning The First Part Last was dedicated to Elizabeth Acevedo
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