Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Youme Landowne”It is brave to be involved / to be not fearful to be unresolved” —Gwendolyn Brooks Youme writes and illustrates for all ages. Her first book, Selavi, That is Life, A Haitian Story of Hope, won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for peace and activism in 2005. Youme’s graphic novel Pitch Black (Don’t be Skerd), a collaboration with Anthony Horton, was recognized by the American Library Association as one of the top 10 young adult great graphic novels of 2009. Her work has taken her to Nairobi, Kenya, to write and illustrate for Rainbow magazine; to Kyoto, Japan, as a graphic artist and a teacher of English as a second language; to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, collaborating with children to paint murals and document stories through drawings and the written word; to Cuba for murals; to St.John , US Virgin Islands, to lead poetry workshops; to Laos; and to Ghana. Everywhere she travels, Youme employs poetry and illustration as interview, expression, and communication. She began working with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in 1991 as an intern through Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research, where she earned a BA in education and writing, AKA cross-cultural communication through art. Her father and mother named her combining the words you and me. Who could not then a poet be? |
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