My Fade Is Fresh

About Shauntay Grant

Shauntay Grant (she/her) is an author poet playwright and multimedia artist. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is an associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax her honors include a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize and a Poet Of Honour prize from the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She lives in Halifax Nova Scotia. Learn more about her at shauntaygrant.comKitt Thomas (they/them) is a N­ew York Tim­es be­st-se­lling illustrator and NAACP Image ­Award winner. They are a first-generation Lucian American an author and  a graduate of the Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA in visual studies. Kitts mission is to celebrate Black culture with their drawings and to encourage inclusion in all forms of art as they found it hard to see themself properly represented in the media they enjoyed growing up. Kitt has worked with such companies as Netflix Hasbro and Cartoon Network. They live in Cincinnati Ohio.