Kekla Magoon is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-nominated author of"The Rock and the River". She lives and writes in New York City, but travel around the country presenting book programs and writing workshops for teens and adults.?Kekla also writes non-fiction books for the educational market, and is coeditor of Young Adult and Children''s Literature for the arts journal "Hunger Mountain". She holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. in writing from?Vermont College of Fine Arts.