"Youme (Nguyễn Ly née Landowne) is an author, illustrator and community based artist who has worked internationally in Asia, Africa and the Carribbean. Winner of the 2005 Jane Addams award for her first book, Selavi (That is Life) A Haitian Story of Hope, which is now available in Haitian Kreyol, and YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels in 2009 for Pitch Black (Don't Be Skerd), with Anthony Horton. In 2010, her third book, Mali Under the Night Sky: A Lao Story of Home was released."

-from the author's blog