KWAME ALEXANDER is a poet, educator, and New York Times bestselling author of 28 books. A regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Prize, three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. Kwame is the co-founder of L.E.A.P., an international literacy empowerment organization that built the Barbara E. Memorial Library and Health Clinic in the eastern region of Ghana.
""Wanna be a writer? Wanna find your voice? It all starts here. Kwame Alexander is a man on FIRE! He says this book is LIT. But it's really a SPARK. In other words, he didn't have time to finish this book... so he is leaving it up to YOU and calling it a 'notebook.' Honestly, he's trying his hardest."" - Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and fan of Ghostwriter