Jerry Craft

Jerry Craft is the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal winning author of the graphic novel, New Kid and its companion book, Class Act. In addition, he also won the 2020 Coretta Scott King Author Award as well as the Kirkus Prize for Young Adult Literature. Craft is also the creator of Mama's Boyz, an award-winning comic strip which won the African American Literary Award five times. He is a cofounder of the Schomburg Center's Annual Black Comic Book Festival. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts.