LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Colbert's debut novel, "Pointe," won the 2014 Cybils Award for YA Fiction and was named a Best Book of 2014 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and more. She is also the author of "Little & Lion," winner of the 2018 Stonewall Book Award for YA Fiction. Her next novel, "Finding... Read More →

Jennings co-edited the Eisner-nominated anthology "The Blacker the Ink." He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship at Harvard's Hutchins Center for African & African-American Research. Jennings... Read More →

Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in Michigan and Colorado. After a decade on the East Coast, he now lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two dog-children. His most recent book is "After the Shot Drops."

Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. After graduating from Spelman College, she worked in teen mentoring and lived in Israel for a few years before returning to the US to write full-time. Growing up with a range of cultures, religions, and backgrounds, Stone strives... Read More →