Nikki Giovanni

As a child

As an adult

As an artist

Nikki Giovanni is the award-winning author of Rosa, a biography of Rosa Parks for young people, and three poetry collections for adults: Love Poems; Blues: For All the Changes; and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems. She lives in Virginia, USA, where she teaches at Virginia Tech University.

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