Renee Watson is the author of the teen novels, published by Bloomsbury Children’s books, This Side of Home and Piecing Me Together, which has received three starred reviews, as well as the middle grade novel, What Mamma Left Me, which debuted as an ABC New Voices Pick. Her work also includes two acclaimed picture books, Harlem’s Little BlackBird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. She is also the founder of the I, Too, Literary Arts Collective. She lives in New York City.