Author Talk: Candice Iloh
Join us in conversation with Candice Iloh, author of Salt the Water, Break This House, and Every Body Looking. They will be joined by fellow National Book Award finalist, Ibi Zoboi. Please register through Event Brite at the link below. Mila Myles, narrator of the audiobook, will join us for a reading.
Candice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington, DC, and Brooklyn, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and, in 2021, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water is their third novel.
Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist, Pride, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and a middle-grade debut, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich. She is the editor of Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America. She co-authored the Walter Award and L.A. Times Book Prize-winning novel-in-verse, Punching the Air, with Exonerated Five member, Yusef Salaam. Her debut picture book, The People Remember, received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. Her most recent books include Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler, and Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel. Ibi lives in New Jersey with her husband, a high school art teacher, and their three teenage children.
Mila Myles is a writer/comedian, actor, host and trans media specialist who resides and performs in both NY & LA. They have been featured on HBO, Allure, The New York Film Fest, providence film fest, NowThisNews and in Vogue online. Salt The Water is their first audiobook.
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