Hope Anita Smith

About the Author

Hope Anita Smith received a Coretta Scott King Honor for Keeping the Night Watch and the John Steptoe New Talent Award for The Way a Door Closes. She is the co-author of It Rained Warm Bread which was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and an ALA Notable Book. An accomplished cut-paper-collage artist, Hope wrote and illustrated My Daddy Rules the World which was named an NCTE Notable Poetry Book and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A professional storyteller and in-school poet, Hope lives in Los Angeles, California.