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Writers and Storytelling: Renée Watson
Renée Watson is the New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, and Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She is the founder of I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts, and currently lives in New York City. Her new book Love is a Revolution is available in our Bookshop storefront. On February 23rd, Renée will join Marisa Acocella, Matthew Gavin Frank, and Walter Mosley in our next edition of “Seriously Entertaining” where they will each muse on the theme “I Have Dreamed.” Register here for the show! What are you reading right now for solace or escape or entertainment?How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton If you could live inside a fictional world, which one would you choose?“Jingle Jangle” I’d love to be Journey’s friend. Are there any quotes you use to inspire you?“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” –Oprah Winfrey
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