Born in Los Angeles in 1998, this African American poet said her earliest stories were "very Anne of Green Gables" until she discovered Toni Morrison in high school, and realized that stories could be about people who looked like her. Her children's book Change Sings is perhaps not as well known as the poem she read at President Biden's inaguration, The Hill We Climb. This is Amanda Gorman.
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