Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. Her book Bad News for Outlaws, about the life of deputy U.S. marshal Bass Reeves, won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award, and she also wrote The Book Itch, about Harlem's Greatest Bookstore. She works as a youth services librarian at the public library in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.