simon & schuster. please welcome two of today's most innovative.two time national book award winner and macarthur genius grant recipient. jesmyn ward. and. and newbery honor prince honor an acp image award recipient. jason reynolds reynolds. we got 6 minutes with that and everybody okay. yellow right? okay. so jasmine, my question my first question in the biggest question have for you this evening, you are to me and that you hate this, but to me and to many of them. one of the greatest of our time. right. one of the greatest contemporary writers of our time. and someone who has absolutely and who has accomplished all that you've accomplished and done all the things you've done. my question is, where this begin? like, how does this begin for you? so when we were upstairs in the balcony and we were watching everyone stage, i was thinking about how i would answer that question because i didn't have anything prepared. and, you know, i, i thought back, you know, to my childhood and i came late to reading. i wasn't an early. i struggled to learn to read.