Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over 14 books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, and the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike (illustrated by Van T Rudd). Her poetry collections include Carrying the World, How Decent Folk Behave, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people and Stuff I'm Not Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people.