Our collaborators listing of the North Star Book Festival 2009 is still growing
Books of Hope, New England based writing project of young people ranging in age from 13 to 23 years-old who have published over 100 books containing fiction, hip-hop lit, memoir, plays, and poetry.
Latoya "Brenda's Child" Bosworth, author of A Piece of My Mind . . . Poetic Confessions of a Self-Proclaimed Diva
Lillian Coleman, Coleman Cards & Bookmarks
Karen B. McLean Dade, author Divine N Promise: A Difficult Journey
Lindsay Demers, WGBY Programming Information & Super Why materials
Bea Dozier-Taylor, proprietor of Walk in Truth Christian Books & blackPRINT Books
Zetta Elliott, author of Bird and A Wish After Midnight
Food For Thought Books, A Non-Profit Workers' Collective Making Struggle Visible Since 1976
Gerry [GG] Garner, author of Generations Build the Future: Positives Needed Now! & My Friends Connect Me to the World
Sharon A. Goodman, author Been Through the Fire: And I'm Still Standing
Lujauna D. Hood, Pan African Historical Museum
Zelmon Johnson, proprietor of Olive Tree Books-N-Voices
Levellers Press
Marah MacRostie, Prison Birth Project
Carlos McBride, TRGGR Media Group
Alexander O'Neil, author of Is There Any Love Down Back?: The Four Boys
Peace Pagoda of Leverett, Nipponzan Myohoji nuns and monks who graciously lent us their copies of Peace Crane and Paper Crane Journey: Carrying Sadako's Prayer
Martina Robinson, author of several books of poetry
Robert H. Romer, author of Slavery in the Connecticut Valley
Steve Strimer, David Ruggles Center, Early Florence History & Undergound Railroad Studies
Janet Stupak, Community Relations Coordinator of the Springfield Public Library
Nicole Tadgell, Illustrator Fatuma's New Cloth
Chris Tinson, TRGGR Media Group
Tina Toohey, American International College, 1000 State Street, Springfield MA
Trotter Review 2009, William Monroe Trotter Institute , University of Massachusetts - Boston
Dionne Walker, LA Fitness of Springfield
W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
