Keila V. Dawson is a former educator who writes fiction and nonfiction picture books. A two-time Ohioana finalist, her books have been featured on the New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, John F. Kennedy Library, Bank Street, and Kirkus Best Books lists, selected as a National Council of Teachers of English and National Society of the Social Studies Notable, and nominated for various awards, including the 2021 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, the 2023 Charlotte Award, and the 2023-2024 Louisiana and Illinois Bluestem State Readers’ Choice awards. She is a coeditor of No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, a companion title to the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award-winning title, No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, and the forthcoming No Brain the Same: Young Neurodivergent Activists Shaping Our Future. She is the author of Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book, The King Cake Baby and Yumbo Gumbo. A native of New Orleans, Dawson has also lived and worked in different states, and abroad in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Find out more about her and her books at www.keiladawson.com . Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky.
