She turned to poetry and writing as a way for her to be seen.īefore becoming an author, Zoboi worked at a newspaper and in a bookstore. After her return, her teachers placed her in an English as a Second Language course when she was in the fifth grade, wrongly assuming that Zoboi couldn't speak English. Zoboi stayed in Haiti with relatives for three months while her mother worked to get her back. When they tried to return to the United States, Zoboi was not allowed to return. Four years later, Zoboi returned to Haiti for a visit with her mother. She cites the move from Haiti to New York as one that defined her. The move was hard on Zoboi, who found Brooklyn to be lonely, as her family was in Haiti and her mother worked. Early life īorn in Haiti as Pascale Philantrope, Zoboi immigrated from Port-au-Prince with her mother at age four and grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the 1980s. She is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017. Ibi Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction. MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Ibi Zoboi receives a 2018 Americas Award from the Library of Congress
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