Kwame Alexander is a poet, children's book author, playwright, producer, and the author of fourteen books including Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers, and a children's picture book, Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band. Since 2006, Kwame's Book-in-a-day writing & publishing program for middle and high school students has created more than 1500 student authors in 35 schools across the U.S., and in Canada and the Caribbean. Kwame regularly conducts creative writing workshops and performances in middle and high schools. Most recently, he served as Guest Author for the Grand Cayman Libraries Summer Reading Programme, Poet-in-Residence at Foxcroft Girls Boarding School in Virginia, and Poet-in-Residence for Loudoun County Virginia's year-long, award-winning, Try Poetry 2010 initiative. In the summer of 2010, Alexander created the Book-in-a-Day International Fellowship, and took eight writer/educators on a creative journey to Tuscany. In 2012, he will take eight new writer/educators to Brazil. The Kwame Alexander Papers, a collection of his professional and personal documents, is held at George Washington University's Gelman Library. Recently, Kwame served on the advisory board for Nikki Giovanni's The 100 Best African American Poems. He is currently the poet-laureate of LitWorld, a literacy organization dedicated to supporting the development of literacy in the world's most vulnerable communities.