Amina Luqman-Dawson

Amina Luqman-Dawson loves using writing to tell stories and to build an understanding of race, culture and community. Her published writing includes op-eds in newspapers, magazine articles, travel writing and book reviews. She’s authored the pictorial history book Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg (Arcadia Publishing). She has a BA in Political Science from Vassar College and a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley. Freewater (Little Brown) is her debut novel. The novel is a New York Times Bestseller and has received critical acclaim, including the John Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award. 

You can find Amy with her husband and possibly one of their three young adult children making jam, baking bread, reading books, cuddling cats, or tending dahlias and raspberries in or around their old farmhouse in Western New York.

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