Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including The Voting Booth, The Only Black Girls in Town, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph, and Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. She is co-writer of Misty Copeland's Life in Motion young readers edition, and her short fiction and essays have been published in a variety of critically acclaimed anthologies for young people.

Her books have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections, and have appeared on many best of lists, including the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles.

Brandy is the recipient of the 2018 Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award, one of a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the United States. 

Brandy was born and raised in the Ozarks, in Springfield, Missouri, where she attended Glendale High School. The works of Dorothy West, Barthe DeClements, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and Zadie Smith were impactful to her writing career. She began working on what would be her debut novel, Pointe, in 2009, inspired by reports of long-term kidnapping cases.

WHERE TO FIND BRANDY:

• Website - https://www.brandycolbert.com
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/brandycolbert
• Instagram - https://instagram.com/brandycolbert  

BOOKS BY BRANDY COLBERT:

• The Voting Booth (2020) - https://bookshop.org/books/the-voting-booth/9781368053297
• The Only Black Girls in Town (2020) - https://bookshop.org/books/the-only-black-girls-in-town/9780316456388
• The Revolution of Birdie Randolph (2019) - https://bookshop.org/books/the-revolution-of-birdie-randolph/9780316448567
• Find Yvonne (2018) - https://bookshop.org/books/finding-yvonne/9780316349055
• Little & Lion (2018) - https://bookshop.org/books/little-lion/9780316349017
• Pointe (2015) - https://bookshop.org/books/pointe/9780147514417

MEDIA REFERENCES:

• Tulsa Greenwood Race Massacre - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward - http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/salvage-the-bones-9781608196265/
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead - https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/books
• Make Me a World (Random House imprint) - https://www.makemeaworld.com