Jabari Asim is a professor at Emerson College, where he is director of the MFA program in Creative Writing.
In 2021, he illustrated The Story of John Lewis and Black Inventors ..
He is greatly inspired by jazz and the dapper fashions of its innovators.
Today, he enjoys sharing his fondness for art and entrepreneurship with children.
His love of books and poetry was encouraged by his mother, a librarian.
He won his first art contest at the age of 5 and was educated in public schools by many skilled art teachers.
Polk has been drawing all his life.
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They include A Child\'s Introduction to African American History, Preaching to the Chickens, Whose Toes Are Those , and Me and Muhammad Ali .
A recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the author of several works for children.
Jabari Asim is a professor at Emerson College, where he is director of the MFA program in Creative Writing