Leila Mottley
Contributor
Leila Mottley is the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and Oprah Daily. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. Nightcrawling is her first novel.
For Author Leila Mottley, A Changing Oakland Will Always Be Home
The writer reflects on her relationship with her beloved hometown, the setting for her debut novel Nightcrawling.