She’s worked for arts organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Community Word Project as a writer-in-residence and teaching artist in New York City public schools.īorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and their three children. Ibi Zobois new novel, American Street is a gritty and haunting tale of a Haitian teenage immigrant, Fabiola Toussaint, who is separated from her mother when. As an educator, she was the recipient of several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, the Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. Ibi has appeared on CBS This Morning and The Reid Out alongside Yusef Salaam, and on PBS’s Book View Now. Her most recent books are STAR CHILD: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER, and OKOYE TO THE PEOPLE: A BLACK PANTHER NOVEL for Marvel. Based on her own experiences as a young Haitian immigrant, Ibi Zoboi’s novel is a reflection on immigration, family, and freedom. Her debut picture book, THE PEOPLE REMEMBER, received a Coretta Scott King Book Honor Award. Haiti Cultural Exchange presents the NYC book launch of Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi. Ibi is the editor of BLACK ENOUGH: STORIES OF BEING YOUNG & BLACK IN AMERICA.
Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, which was also shortlisted for the U.K.’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Times Book Prize-winning PUNCHING THE AIR with prison reform activist Dr. Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of AMERICAN STREET, a National Book Award Finalist PRIDE, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH, her middle-grade debut. She is also the co-author of the Walter Award and L.A.
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