WAYÉTU MOORE, author of She Would Be King, was born in Liberia and raised in Spring, Texas. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in anthropology and education from Columbia University, where she held a Margaret Mead Fellowship. She is a graduate of Howard University and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her writing can be found in the Atlantic, Guernica, and the Rumpus, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.