Join Coretta Scott King Award winner and Kennedy Center Honoree in The Cartography Project Junauda Petrus-Nasah (she/her) author of The Stars and the Blackness Between Them. Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both. Junauda is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch and multi-dimensional performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent who employs poetics, the erotic and experiences remembered via ancestral dreaming within her writing.