Barbara Binns

Barbara Binns is an African American author of contemporary, multicultural stories. She was born and raised on Chicago’s south side. She writes to attract and inspire readers with stories of “real boys growing into real men…and the people who love them.” Her fiction books for middle-grade and young-adult readers include Pull, Being God, and Courage. Her writing has won an Oregon 2010 Readers Choice award, was chosen for the 2012 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list, and was named a 2023 Honoree by the Society of Midland Authors in the Children's nonfiction category. She lives and writes in a suburb of Chicago.