Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young Peopleโs Literature. She received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award, and is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for herย New York Timesย bestselling memoirย Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. In 2015, Woodson was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Her recent adult book,ย Another Brooklyn, was a National Book Award finalist. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books includeย The Other Side,ย Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor bookย Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winnersย Feathers,ย Show Way, andย After Tupac and D Foster; andย Miracle's Boys, which received theย LA Timesย Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.