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Zetta Elliott was born on 26 October, 1972 in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian-American writer. Discover Zetta Elliott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?
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Ajax, Ontario, Canada |
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Zetta Elliott Net Worth
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Elliott's first YA novels, A Wish After Midnight and its sequel, The Door at the Crossroads, are speculative fiction featuring a black teenager from Brooklyn, NY, who travels back in time to the Brooklyn of 1863.
Like A Wish After Midnight, Dayshaun's Gift involves sending the protagonist back to 1863, at the time of the New York City draft riots.
Zetta Elliott (born October 26, 1972) is a Canadian-American poet, playwright, and author.
Her first picture book Bird, won many awards.
She has also been recognized for other contributions to children's literature, as well as for her essays, plays, and young adult novels.
Elliott was born in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, on October 26, 1972.
She has lived in America for most of her adult life, having moved to Brooklyn in 1994 to begin as a student at New York University (NYU).
More recently, she moved to Philadelphia.
She holds a PhD in American studies from NYU and has worked as a professor at several colleges.
Elliott's works include recovering from urban violence and other challenging issues of modern life, which she addresses partly to help her fellow black people feel seen.
Elliott wrote Bird originally as a short story in 2006, but only found a publisher for it after she and Strickland re-worked it to be a picture book.
Elliott's first professional publication was the children's picture book Bird, in 2008.
A Wish After Midnight was originally self-published in 2008, then re-released by Amazon Encore in 2010.
Illustrator Shadra Strickland won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 2009 for New Illustrator for the book.
Bird also won the New Voices Award Honor from its publishing company, Lee & Low Books, as well as the 2009 Paterson Prize for Book for Young Readers, and the 2011 West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award.
The City Books series is aimed at much younger readers, ages 6 (kindergarten) to 10 (4th grade).
The series began in 2014 with The Phoenix on Barkley Street, then continued with Dayshaun's Gift in 2015.
2015 featured the beginning of Elliott's collaboration with artist and illustrator Purple Wong, who illustrated Elliot's poem I Love Snow! as a children's picture book that year.
The Door at the Crossroads was released in 2016.
In 2016 they released A Hand to Hold in February, Billie's Blues (also illustrated by Paul Melecky) in February, and Milo's Museum in November.
In 2016, Tilbury House Publishers put out Melena's Jubilee: the story of a fresh start, illustrated with mixed media artwork by Aaron Boyd.
It was listed as a Bank Street College of Education 2016 Best Children's Book of the Year with a star for outstanding merit, and was also named a 2017 Skipping Stones Honor Book by the international multicultural magazine Skipping Stones, in publication since 1988.
Elliott released City Books #3: The Ghosts in the Castle in 2017, along with City Books #4: The Phantom Unicorn.
Both are illustrated by Charity Russell.
The poetic picture book about autism Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged followed in 2017, and On My Block, also a poem, in 2020.
Reflecting Elliott's activism in encouraging diverse representations in books, a background character in Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged is a Native American boy wearing a t-shirt featuring the comic book character Super Indian, a Native super hero created by Arigon Starr.
2017's YA Novel, Mother of the Sea was published by Elliott's own imprint, Rosetta Press, as were many of her titles for children.
The first book in Elliott's urban fantasy series for middle grade children, Dragons in a Bag, was one of Amazon's picks for Amazon Best Children's Book of the Year in 2018.
The second book in the series is called The Dragon Thief.
Both were published by Random House and illustrated by Geneva B.
Elliot's answer to the question "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?"
was published in 2018's We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, as the poem "You Too Can Fly", illustrated by Laura Freedman.
It was recognized by both Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2018.
In the poem, Elliott tells readers: