Jabari Asim

Biography

Jabari Asim (www.facebook.com/jabariasimwriter) is the author of several adult and children’s books, including Fifty Cents and a Dream–an NAACP Image Award Nominee, CCBC Choice, School Library Journal Editor’s Choice, and Kirkus Best Book. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston and executive editor of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.