Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford grew up in Baltimore, Maryland,
and began writing poetry in first grade, when she dictated a
poem to her mother. She is the author of a number of picture
books for children, including The Sound That Jazz
Makes, an NAACP Image Award finalist; Juneteenth
Jamboree, which appears on the Black Books Galore! list
of Best Books for Girls; and Grandma and Me, a
Black Issues Book Review Children's Paperback Best.
Her poetry is collected in The Tar Baby on the
Soapbox and the prizewinning volume, The Tan
Chanteuse, and appears in such anthologies as The
20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury and In
Daddy's Arms I Am Tall, winner of a Coretta Scott King
Award for illustration. Her poems have also appeared in such
journals as Calyx, Greensboro Review, Callaloo and
African-American Review. Carole is the recipient of a
1995 North Carolina Arts Council fellowship and the Furious
Flower Poetry Prize from James Madison University. A
columnist for the Greensboro News & Record, her
articles and essays have appeared in Education Week,
Christian Science Monitor, Essence, American Legacy and
The Washington Post. Her work as an editorial writer
for The Chronicle won a North Carolina Press
Association award.

With an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and an M.A. in publications
design from the University of Baltimore, Carole conducts
performances and residencies at schools and cultural
institutions. She has taught at Salem College, High Point
University, and Guilford Technical Community College. She
resides in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband,
Ronald, and their two children.