She is currently on faculty at Prince George’s Community College in the Education Department.
A 2017 recipient of SCBWI’s Emerging Voices Award, Lakita received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Lakita was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Lakita Wilson is the author of several novels and non-fiction projects for children and young adults, including What Is Black Lives Matter?, a part of the New York Times Bestselling HQ Now series Be Real, Macy Weaver, a coming of age middle grade friendship story and a few other secret projects she isn’t allowed to tell you about yet. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE for more great content:)īuy BE REAL, MACY WEAVER by Lakita Wilson: ĭownload BANNEKER BONES AND THE GIANT ROBOT BEES for free: She reveals her experiences with Root Literary, how teaching inspires her writing, how to write about racism in historical fiction for young readers that might just aid them in thinking critically, why that’s a good and necessary thing, her lifelong fear of dead celebrities, and so much more. We mock James Patterson and talk about the current state of diversity in traditional publishing. Lakita Wilson and I discuss how winning the 2017 SCBWI Emerging Voices Award and running a popular Instagram page set her on a path for publishing success as well as the launch of her newest novel, BE REAL, MACY WEAVER.
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