Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street , a National Book Award finalist; Nigeria Jones , a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Pride ; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich ; Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel; and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize-winning Punching the Air , cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for her picture book The People Remember and her middle...See more

Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street , a National Book Award finalist; Nigeria Jones , a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Pride ; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich ; Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel; and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize-winning Punching the Air , cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. She is also a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for her picture book The People Remember and her middle grade biography of Octavia Butler, Star Child . She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough . Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family. You can find her online at ibizoboi.net. See less