Renée Watson has topped bestseller lists and won multiple awards for her children’s and young adult literature. But the Portland-born author recently released her first book for adults.

We revisit a conversation we recorded in 2018 with author Renée Watson about her award-winning 2018 young adult novel, "Piecing Me Together," which is based on her experiences growing up in Portland.

The Hillsboro Public Library is celebrating local authors during “Hillsboro Reads” month with lectures, workshops and storytimes March 3-18. The kick-off event begins with a keynote event from ...

New York Times #1 bestselling author Renée Watson gained inspiration for her middle grade series, the Ryan Hart books, from a variety of sources, including the young people she worked with as a ...

First published last May, this adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Renée Watson follows a plus-size Black single mother living in Portland, OR.

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson joined us to talk about the final book in her middle grade Ryan Hart series--"With Ways to Build Dreams".

Portland native Renée Watson, author of "All the Blues in the Sky", joined us to share the inspiration behind the book and what she hopes readers take away when they finish.

Renée Watson recently embarked on a six-city tour for the final installment in her Ryan Hart chapter book series, Ways to Build Dreams (Bloomsbury). Over the course of three weeks, she spoke to ...

Award-winning authors Crystal Maldonado, Julie Murphy, Renée Watson and Yehudi Mercado chat with Allen Zadoff on why fat and plus-size representation matters.

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.