American
Ibi Zoboi is a Haitian American author of young adult fiction. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and moved to New York City as a child, growing up in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, American Street (2017), follows a Haitian teenager in Detroit and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She also wrote Pride (2018), a retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Brooklyn, and My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich. She co-wrote Punching the Air with Yusef Salaam, and edited the anthology Black Enough. She holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her books center Black and immigrant teenagers and bring Haitian language, faith and family life into American young adult fiction.