Our Interview with Robtel Pailey, author of Gbagba
Check out this brief conversation we had with Robtel Pailey, journalist, scholar, and author of One Moore Book’s Gbagba, a book exploring corruption.
OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to write for a living?
Robtel: I’ve always been fascinated by the power and beauty of words. I used to devour books as a child and write in my journal regularly as a young adult, but I didn’t realize I wanted to write for a living until I started sending dispatches to family and fri
Our conversation with Maureen Boyer, author of Where is Lola?
Maureen Boyer, author of our Haiti series title Where is Lola?, is a life long reader and storyteller. This young woman’s love for Haiti motivated her to pen a title encouraging young children to do the same. OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to write for a living? Maureen: I didn’t always know that I wanted to be a writer but I always loved stories. When I was young I used to make up these wild stories in my head and sometimes I would tell them to my younger sister.
“If I were not a writer, I would not exist…” - Our chat with author Katia D. Ulysse
Today, we’re featuring a brief chat we had with Katia D. Ulysse, author of our Haiti series title, Fabiola Konn Konte (Fabiola Can Count). With her writing, Ulysse honors the experiences of the ones who “live to tell,” like the young rèstavèk girl featured in her book.
OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to write for a living?
Katia: I’ve always known. I write for the same reason that I would not hold my own breath long enough to die. I spend weeks and months (ye
Cybille St. Aude, author of Elsie
Meet Cybille St. Aude, former chef, creative mind and author of our Haiti series title Elsie.We found her candor and sense of humor delightfully refreshing. OMB: Describe your creative process. Cybille: My creative process varies from project to project. There’s a bunch of concepts that I’d like to push and dedicate my time to but I really need to be the right mood. I will always be able to write, but for certain concepts and characters I have to feel a particular way, in the
“I see everything as a work in progress” - Joseph Zoboi, illustrator
The amazingly talented artist and art educator, Joseph Zoboi, collaborated with his wife (writer Ibi Zoboi), to create the book A is for Ayti. We had a brief chat with him about his life, his creative philosophy, and his sources of inspiration. OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to be an illustrator? Joseph: I have always been drawing. I remember drawing Batman as a child. I ended up giving the drawing to somebody who really liked it. I think that was when I made th
A conversation with Stephanie C. Horton, author, editor and activist
Stephanie C. Horton is editor, activist, and author of One Moore Book's What Happened to Red Rooster When A Visitor Came? Recently, Horton shared some details of her writer’s life with our team. We found her words poetic, passionate, and awe-inspiring. OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to write for a living?
Stephanie: There was never a time I didn’t write. My mother tells me I began reading at three year old. Reading and writing are inseparable from my earliest me
Meet Ibi Zoboi, author of A is for Ayiti
Today, we feature writer Ibi Zoboi, author of A is for Ayiti. This scholar and storyteller devotes her writing life to “digging for [the] truths” of her ancestors. OMB: When did you realize that you wanted to write for a living?
Ibi: When my professors started taking an interest in my work. One professor paid for me to go to the YariYari Conference, a groundbreaking conference at NYU back in 1997 featuring women writers of African descent from all over the world. There we
A Conversation with OMB Staff Illustrator, Augustus Moore Jr.
OMB: So I was flipping through the books you’ve illustrated, 1 Peking, A Gift for Yole, Jamonghoieand Kukujumuku and I noticed that the aesthetic is different in each book. Could you talk to us about the different media you employ?
GM: PrismaColor has been my favorite medium since high school. So naturally, it was what I gravitated toward when my sister asked me to illustrate. 1 Peking was all PrismaColor because that was just what I felt most comfortable using. With A Gif
One Moore Book + Edwidge Danticat
The One Moore Book Haiti Series was guest edited by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, who also contributed a new children's book to the series. The Last Mapou, Danticat's second children's book, was a collaboration with renowned painter Edouard Duval-Carrié. To purchase this and other Haiti Series titles, visit One Moore Book Store today!
