My name is Kwame Alexander. I’ve written 21 books and I love my job. I tell people all the time just the idea of being able to share your ideas and your thoughts and your feelings about the world and about your place in it with young people is the best job in the world, and to get paid to do it, it’s just — I’m over the moon. I love it.
Kwame Alexander has written 21 books and he thinks that writing for young people is the best job in the world.
Kwame Alexander, an award-winning poet and author, writes picture books for children and cross-genre books for teens. The Crossover — his basketball-concrete poetry-hiphop mashup — was awarded the 2015 Newbery Medal. Alexander is also the creator of the in-school Book-in-a-Day writing and publishing workshop.
