Candice Iloh

Writer • Poet

candice iloh is the award-winning author of young adult novels, Every Body Looking, Break This House, and Salt the Water. A 2020 National Book Award Finalist and 2021 Printz Honoree, candice is a first-generation Nigerian-American writer whose books center home. They are a 2023 PEW Center for Arts & Heritage fellow and 2024 Leeway Foundation Transformation Awardee. When not writing, they teach writing for young people and popular fiction to both undergraduate and graduate students.