Renée Watson

Agent: Rosemary Stimola

Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Over the past decade she has authored eighteen books for children and teens, which have collectively sold more than a million copies.

She received a Coretta Scott King Award and a Newbery Honor for Piecing Me Together and high praise for 1619 Project: Born on theWater, co-authored by Nikole Hannah Jones.

Watson is on the Council of Writers for the National Writing Project and is a member of the Academy of American Poets’ Education Advisory Council. She splits her time between New York City and Portland, Oregon.

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