Alicia D. Williams

Alicia D. Williams is an American author and teacher whose debut novel, Genesis Begins Again, came out in 2019 and earned a Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent. She has since written picture book biographies such as Jump at the Sun, about Zora Neale Hurston, and Shirley Chisholm Dared, about the first Black woman in Congress, along with the picture book The Talk and the verse novel Mid-Air. Williams also works as a Master Teaching Artist, leading school residencies on writing.