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Candice Iloh

Candice Iloh is a first generation Nigerian-American writer, teaching artist, and youth educator. She is a graduate of Howard University and holds an MFA in writing from Lesley University. Her work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary and VONA among many others. Her debut novel, Every Body Looking, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Genres: Young Adult Fiction

Novels

   Every Body Looking (2020)
   Break This House (2022)
   Salt the Water (2023)

Award nominations

	2024 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Salt the Water
	2021 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Every Body Looking
	2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (shortlist) : Every Body Looking

Candice Iloh recommends

Nigeria Jones (2023)
Ibi Zoboi
"Nigeria Jones is an unwavering proclamation of Black girlhood that stretches far beyond surface ideas of strength, tenacity, and survival. This is a story that plunges head first into the nuances of a teenage girl's personhood, while contemplating what it means to be seen as a small part of a whole. Ibi Zoboi offers a bold meditation on what it means to question your place in, while being critical of, a community that has always been your home. Here, she asks: what does a Black girl do with her guilt and her grief in the midst of all her power?"

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