The 2026/2027 Inprint Cool Brains! Series will present National Book Award winner and renowned poet Elizabeth Acevedo, who will share her new YA novel, Anger Is Only a Shadow.
Known for YA novels filled with poetry, humor, and heart, Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award.
She is also the author of With the Fire on High, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; and Clap When You Land, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion and served as the 2022 Young People’s Poet Laureate.
The 2026/2027 Inprint Cool Brains! Series will present National Book Award winner and renowned poet Elizabeth Acevedo, who will share her new YA novel, Anger Is Only a Shadow.
Known for YA novels filled with poetry, humor, and heart, Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award.
She is also the author of With the Fire on High, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; and Clap When You Land, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion and served as the 2022 Young People’s Poet Laureate.
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