Tonya Duncan Ellis

I'm TONYA DUNCAN ELLIS, children's middle grade and picture book author of the award-winning, SOPHIE WASHINGTON chapter series and THEY BUILT ME FOR FREEDOM (HarperCollins, Balzer + Bray, 2024). I'm a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), the Authors Guild, and the Brown Bookshelf’s Highlights Foundation-sponsored Amplify Black Stories storyteller cohort. 

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