Kesi Augustine

Kesi Augustine is the author of the picture books Faith Takes the Train (HarperCollins), Hope for the Honeybees and Whales of Wonder. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Crawl Space Journal, Winter Tangerine, TulipTree Review, and For Harriet, among others. Her essays have appeared in USA Today and Connected Academics, the blog of the Modern Language Association. When she was 14, she won the New York MTA’s Poetry in Motion contest, and her poem “Sleepless” was featured on subway trains throughout the city for a year. She teaches K-12 Language Arts in a Florida special education program, and formerly taught at the Bard High School Early College Program, New York University, and as a writing assistant for Williams College. She holds a BA from Williams College, and an MA and a Ph.D in English (Children’s Literature) from New York University.