Leah Johnson
Keynote Speaker: Award-Winning Author of "You Should See Me in a Crown"
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Leah Johnson is an eternal midwesterner and author of award-winning books for children and young adults. Her bestselling debut YA novel, "You Should See Me in a Crown," was a Stonewall Honor Book, the inaugural Reese's Book Club YA pick and named a best book of the year by Amazon, Kirkus, Marie Claire, Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library. Johnson's essays and cultural criticism can be found in Teen Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan among others. Her sophomore novel, "Rise to the Sun" was released in 2021. Johnson is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow and when she’s not writing or ranting about pop culture and politics on Twitter, she is a professor of creative writing and composition.
Johnson was born and raised in central Indiana — a tried and true, lifelong Hoosier (and as you can perhaps imagine, much of her work now features more cornfields and soybeans than any one human has business writing about). She began her writing career with a spiral notebook full of short stories in Mrs. Peacock's fifth-grade class and could never quite bring herself to stop. That love of storytelling eventually carried her to Sarah Lawrence College for her MFA in fiction writing, and to Brooklyn to live amongst every other struggling writer.
Johnson says she never felt like she saw herself in the young adult characters she read about as a teen, so she decided to write one herself. "You Should See Me in a Crown" was released to critical acclaim. The novel was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a 2021 ALA Rainbow List Top Ten selection and named one of Cosmopolitan's 15 Best Young Adult Books of 2020. Her sophomore novel, "Rise to the Sun" (2021) is the first installment of her debut middle grade series, "Ellie Engle Saves Herself."
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Leah Johnson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Authors, Diversity and Women. The estimated speaking fee range to book Leah Johnson for live events is Below $10,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Leah Johnson generally travels from Brooklyn, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Delaney McCloud and Ijeoma Oluo. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Leah Johnson for an upcoming event.
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Author Leah Johnson On Being Young, Black, Queer And In Love
Johnson says she wrote You Should See Me in a Crown for her readers, yes, but also for herself: "I wanted to remind myself that it is possible to be Black and queer and from where you're from, and still get all the best things out of life."
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Leah Johnson Didn’t See Herself in YA Novels, so She Wrote Her Own
"You Should See Me in a Crown" is a quietly radical novel about a queer black prom queen in small-town Indiana. It's about Liz Lighty, a queer black girl from Indiana who has always believed she was too poor and too awkward to make a mark in her small, rich town. Since the college financial aid money she depended on fell through, her only option is to run for prom queen, which has a scholarship attached. But along the way, Liz falls for the competition.
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'Black joy is at the heart of' author and Indianapolis native Leah Johnson's YA novel
Leah Johnson decided it was her turn to be prom queen. In an orange Zara pantsuit, prom court sash and a crown her friends bought for her off Amazon, the author walked onto the Ben Davis High School bleachers with her debut novel, thinking about what it was like to grow up in Indianapolis and how far she’s come since.
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Q&A With Y.A. Sensation Leah Johnson
Johnson, author of the best-selling book You Should See Me in a Crown, reflects on the success of her recent debut novel, growing up in the Midwest, life during the pandemic, the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, and what’s next.
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