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Autumn 1992 • Vol. XIV No. 4 • Fiction |

From Stab Wounds: Four Short Stories

By Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen books, including National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. Recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, her awards include four Newbery Honors, three National Book Award finalists, two Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA literature. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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