Kwame Mbalia Author Visit
Tuesday, March 24
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Fishers
Meeting Rooms- East/Center/StageCome meet New York Times Bestselling Author Kwame Mbalia!
Kwame is a husband, father, writer, a New York Times bestselling author, a publisher, and a former pharmaceutical metrologist (in that order). He is the author of the bestselling Tristan Strong series, the first of which was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Kwame is the co-author of Last Gate of The Emperor with Prince Joel Makonnen, from Scholastic Books, and the editor of the #1 New York Times bestselling anthology Black Boy Joy, published by Delacorte Press.
And if you weren’t tired of listening to Kwame’s bio, there’s more, because Kwame is also a Publisher with his imprint Freedom Fire, a collaboration with Disney Books! His newest middle grade adventure, Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek, is a Freedom Fire title and launched in October 2024. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheez-Its.
Following the program Kwame will be available to sign books. LoudMouth Books will be onsite starting at 5:30pm with a selection of books for purchase.
Registration is not required but highly requested for an accurate headcount!



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