Sunday, May 21st, 2023 Tony Medina

Tony Medina is a multi-genre author/editor of 24 award-winning books for adults and young people, the most recent of which are Che Che Colé (fiction); Death, With Occasional Smiling (poetry); Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy (children’s); I Am Alfonso Jones (graphic novel); Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (anthology). The first Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Medina holds a master’s and PhD from Binghamton University, SUNY. Medina’s work appears in over 100 anthologies and journals, and his I and I, Bob Marley audiobook, narrated by actor Jaime Lincoln Smith and produced by Live Oak Media, received the 2022 Audie Award in the Young Listeners category.