Coretta Scott King Award
1 appearances
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Edition 54 (2023) Winner
Jas Hammonds
ジャス・ハモンズ
Jas Hammonds
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Pacific Northwest
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Former flight attendant
- Active Years
- 2020-2024
- Influenced By
- Dr. Seuss, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent | We Deserve Monuments | New Talent | American Library Association | Winner |
| 2020 | James Baldwin Fellowship | — | Fellowship | MacDowell | Recipient |
Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent
2023
Work:
We Deserve Monuments
Category:
New Talent
Organization:
American Library Association
Result:
Winner
James Baldwin Fellowship
2020
Category:
Fellowship
Organization:
MacDowell
Result:
Recipient
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
We Deserve Monuments
2022 Young adult fictionSet in a fictional town in Georgia and tells the story of a Black biracial girl moving there to aid her aging, sick grandmother. The story explores the themes of love, family, generational trauma, and racism. First draft in 2016 originally envisioned as a ghost story. Published by Roaring Brook, an imprint of Macmillan, in Summer 2022.
mental healthqueernessexploration of mixed-raced identitiesBlacknesscomplicated family and friendship dynamicsbittersweet endings
Thirsty
2024 Young adult fictionA mixed-race lesbian girl joins an exclusive sorority in her first year of college promising connections to powerful women of color, using alcohol to cope with financial pressure, anxiety, and lack of social status. Explores connection between alcohol and societal pressure in college. Published May 2024.
mental healthqueernessmixed-race identitiesBlacknesssocietal pressurealcohol
Bibliography
- We Deserve Monuments
- Thirsty
Style & Themes
- Recurring Motifs
- mental healthqueernessexploration of mixed-raced identitiesBlacknesscomplicated family and friendship dynamicsbittersweet endings
Legacy
Known for young adult fiction, debut We Deserve Monuments won Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Critically acclaimed with best book selections by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, multiple starred reviews.
Trivia
- First book remembers reading is Dr. Seuss's There’s a Wocket in My Pocket.
- Book that made her want to be a writer is Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice in Rapture, Sort of.
- Was a flight attendant before becoming an author.
- Identifies as a Black, queer writer.