Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and immigrated to the U.S. when she was four years old. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was a recipient of the Norma Fox Mazer Award. Her award-winning and Pushcart-nominated writing has been published in Haiti Noir, The Caribbean Writer, The New York Times Book Review, The Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. Her debut YA novel American Street (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins) is due out in Winter 2017. Her debut Middle Grade novel, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich (Dutton/Penguin), is forthcoming.