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REBROADCAST: Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of the memoir "Brown Girl Dreaming" and many other books for children and young adults.
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Jacqueline Woodson is the author of the memoir "Brown Girl Dreaming" and many other books for children and young adults.

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of “Miracle’s Boys,” “Harbor Me” and many other books for children and young adults. Her bestselling memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming” is written in verse and in 2015, the Poetry Foundation named her the Young People’s Poet Laureate. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2020. We spoke with Woodson in front of a small audience at Literary Arts in downtown Portland in 2019.

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Julie Sabatier