Ronald L. Smith

<p><strong>Ronald L. Smith</strong> is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award–winning author of several acclaimed novels for young readers, including <em>Hoodoo</em>,<em> The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away</em>, <em>Gloom Town</em>,<em> Where the Black Flowers Bloom</em>,<em> </em>and the Black Panther: The Young Prince series<em>. </em>He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. To learn more, visit strangeblackflowers.com.</p>