Angela Johnson is an award-winning American children’s book and poetry author with over 40 books to her credit. She began her writing career in 1989 with the publication of a picture book called “Tell Me a Story, Mama” which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1991. She has won three Coretta Scott King Awards. She is also the recipient of the Michael L Printz Award. “When I Am Old With You” was an Honor Book in 1990 and named an American Library Association Notable Book.She lives in Kent, OH.