Jacqueline Woodson’s many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, many Coretta Scott King Awards and three NAACP Image Awards. She has written more than forty books for young people and adults including Red At The Bone, the National Book Award-winning memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, National Book Award Finalist, Another Brooklyn and the #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Day You Begin. In 2018, she founded BALDWIN FOR THE ARTS (https://baldwinforthearts.org), a residency serving composers, writers, interdisciplinary, and visual artists of the Global Majority..
