ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Kay is a poet from New York City who was born in 1988. She has been performing spoken word poetry since she was fourteen years old. She was a featured poet on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam in 2006, and that year she was also the youngest poet to compete in the National Poetry Slam. Since then, Sarah has shared her poetry on six of the seven continents and is currently yearning for Antarctica. She is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference, which garnered two standing ovations. Sarah holds a Masters Degree in The Art of Teaching from Brown University and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Grinnell College. Her first book, B, was also illustrated by Sophia Janowitz and was ranked #1 Poetry Book on Amazon. Sarah is the founder of Project VOICE, an organization that uses spoken word poetry to encourage people to engage in creative self-expression in schools and communities around the world. She spends a lot of her time with a blanket and a stuffed animal lion. For more, see: kaysarahsera.com

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Sophia Janowitz has created chickens out of bathmats and rubber gloves for the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, chocolate buttons for a pop-up store in Boston, a poster for a musical premiering at the Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai, and a cardboard levitating house for a play premiering in New York City. She currently assists an editorial portrait photographer, tutors math, and draws every day. Some of her work can be seen at sophiajanowitz.com