2023 Coretta Scott King Award Honoree!

New York Timesbestseller Ibi Zoboi’s groundbreaking biography of Octavia E. Butler received six starred reviews.

National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experiencedan American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death.