Chrystal D. Giles is a children’s book author and champion for diversity and representation in children’s literature. Her middle-grade debut, Take Back the Block, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and Kids’ Indie Next Pick. Chrystal was a 2018 We Need Diverse Books mentee, and her poem “Dimples” appears in the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Millbrook). Chrystal lives outside Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and son.