Amber McBride's debut YA novel in verse, Me (Moth), was a National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award winner. She is the author of the bestselling novels Onyx & Beyond, Gone Wolf, We Are All So Good at Smiling, and the poetry collections Poemhood: Our Black Revival (four starred reviews) and Thick with Trouble. She received her MFA in poetry from Emerson College, and her poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, Willow Springs, the Cincinnati Review, and the Rumpus.
She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit her at authorsunbound.com/amber-mcbride. Erica Martin is a freelance editor and a poet. Her debut poetry collection, And We Rise, was an ABA Indies Introduce selection as well as an ABA Indie Next pick. She has been featured by Oprah Daily and enjoys making a difference in the world through political activism, reading, and writing. When she's not reading and writing, you can find her editing, baking pies, or watching The Vampire Diaries for the millionth time. Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She is the first-place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She is the author of the chapbooks Bloodwarm and Shutter and her debut full-length collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times. She is also a coeditor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama.
She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit her at authorsunbound.com/amber-mcbride. Erica Martin is a freelance editor and a poet. Her debut poetry collection, And We Rise, was an ABA Indies Introduce selection as well as an ABA Indie Next pick. She has been featured by Oprah Daily and enjoys making a difference in the world through political activism, reading, and writing. When she's not reading and writing, you can find her editing, baking pies, or watching The Vampire Diaries for the millionth time. Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She is the first-place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She is the author of the chapbooks Bloodwarm and Shutter and her debut full-length collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times. She is also a coeditor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama.
