Zetta Elliott

Zetta Elliott is the author of over forty books for young readers, including the award-winning picture books Bird and A Place Inside of Me. Her bestseller Dragons in a Bag was selected for the 2021 Global Read Aloud. Her young adult poetry collection, Say Her Name, won the 2021 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Her verse novel, Moonwalking, made the 2023 Notable Books for a Global Society list. Her own imprint, Rosetta Press, generates culturally relevant stories that center children who have been misrepresented and/or rendered invisible in children’s literature; her self-published novelette, Mother of the Sea, is a 2024 selection for the American Library Association's Great Stories Club. She currently lives in Chicago.