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Kwame Mbalia
Milwaukee, WI Born: 1990 Link to Author's Website Link to Wikipedia page Link to podcast interview |
Biography:
Kwame is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist in that order. His debut middle-grade novel, TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, and it—along with the sequels TRISTAN STRONG DESTROYS THE WORLD and TRISTAN STRONG KEEPS PUNCHING, out October 5th—is published by Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion. He is the co-author of LAST GATE OF THE EMPEROR with Prince Joel Makonnen, from Scholastic Books, and the editor of the #1 New York Times bestselling anthology BLACK BOY JOY, published by Delacourte Press. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner (more specifically a Wisconsinite) now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheezits.
(From author website)
Selected Works by Kwame Mbalia:
Kwame is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist in that order. His debut middle-grade novel, TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, and it—along with the sequels TRISTAN STRONG DESTROYS THE WORLD and TRISTAN STRONG KEEPS PUNCHING, out October 5th—is published by Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion. He is the co-author of LAST GATE OF THE EMPEROR with Prince Joel Makonnen, from Scholastic Books, and the editor of the #1 New York Times bestselling anthology BLACK BOY JOY, published by Delacourte Press. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner (more specifically a Wisconsinite) now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheezits.
(From author website)
Selected Works by Kwame Mbalia:
- Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (2019)
- Tristan Strong Destroys the World (2020)
- Tristan Strong Keeps Punching (2021)
- Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood (2021)
- Last Gate of the Emperor (2021)
- Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, The Graphic Novel (2022)
- The Royal Trials (2022)
- Freedom Fire: Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek (2024)
