Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel
American Streetwas a National Book Award finalist and and her debut middle grade novel,
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, was a
New York Times bestseller. She is the author of
Pride, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice, and editor of the anthology,
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller,
Punching the Air, is a YA novel in verse, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Her debut picture book,
The People Remember, earned a Coretta Scott King Honor. Raised in New York City, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children.
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