| Author Notes: | Arriel Vinson is a Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Under the Neon Lights , is a 2026 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, a Reese's Book Club LitUp selection, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection. Arriel earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and is a Tin House YA Scholar, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, and Walter Grant recipient. Her sophomore novel, If This World Were Mine , is forthcoming in spring 2027. You can connect with her on social media at @arriwrites and find her work at arriwrites.com
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