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#Kweli25 Pre-Conference Event Collaborations | Editor & Author In an early interview, Toni Morrison defined what makes a good editor. “Knowing what not to touch; asking all the questions you probably would have asked yourself had there been the time. Good editors are really the third eye.” Editor PHOEBE YEH was “the third eye” for MAHOGANY L. BROWNE. Phoebe Yeh and Mahogany L. Browne worked collaboratively during the editorial process. A BIRD IN THE AIR MEANS WE CAN STILL BREATHE by Mahogany L. Browne is her latest work of art. PHOEBE YEH is a Vice President and Editor-at-Large at Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House Children’s Books. She edited Monster the first Printz winner and three National Book Finalists, all by Walter Dean Myers. She has edited the Magic School Bus series, Big Nate and The School for Good & Evil. She has published the New York Times bestsellers, Max & the Midknights, Dear Martin, My Lost Freedom by George Takei. These authors published children’s debuts with her: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Mahogany L. Browne, Frances Cha, Soman Chainani, Lamar Giles, Jamie Jo Hoang, Traci Huahn, Wade Hudson, Ellen Oh, Patricia Park, Lincoln Peirce, Kelis Rowe, Nic Stone. Yeh is a recipient of the inaugural CBC Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award. MAHOGANY L. BROWNE, a Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow and MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee, is a writer, playwright, organizer, and educator. She has received fellowships from Arts for Justice, Cave Canem, Poets House, and more. Her books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned works Woke and Woke Baby. Founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair, she tours Chrome Valley and is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner. Browne holds an honorary Ph.D. from Marymount Manhattan College and is Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence.