Keila V. Dawson

Biography

Keila V. Dawson is a former teacher, and advocate for children with special needs turned picture book author. Her books include Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book (2021), No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History (2020), The King Cake Baby (2015), and the forthcoming Yumbo Gumbo (2022) and No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Climate Change (2023). Dawson is a New Orleans native and has lived worked on the U.S. east and west coasts, the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt. She lives in Cincinnati.