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Leila Mottley

1 award win, 2 nominations across 1 book.

Leila Mottley is the author of the novel *Nightcrawling*, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times best seller, and the poetry collection *woke up no light*. Her sophomore novel, *The Girls Who Grew Big,* came out in June 2025. She was also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live.