An award-winning children’s book illustrator, fine artist and poet, Jeffery Boston Weatherford is founder of the global online hip hop collective Triiibe Worldwide. His debut book, You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, received starred reviews and was selected among the year’s best books by Kirkus Review, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council for the Social Studies, Cooperative Children's Book Cenyer, and New York Public Library. His fine art has shown in North Carolina, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He designed and published the books Princeville: The 500-Year Flood and A Bat Cave: An Abecedarian Bedtime Chronicle. Jeffery holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Howard University, where he was a Romare Bearden Scholar. He conducts literacy presentations and art and writing/hip hop workshops for schools, libraries and youth agencies. A North Carolina native, he lives near Washington, D.C.