Dr. Autumn A. Griffin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Georgia State’s College of Education & Human Development and a fellow for NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices Fellowship for Scholars of Color.  Broadly, with implications across the fields of Children's & Young Adult Literature, English Education, and Digital and Media Studies, Autumn's work explores how Black adolescents engage literature and literacy to read stories and (re)write counter stories about their experiences with gendered and racialized oppression as well as Black joy and love. Her work has been published in the Research in the Teaching of English, Urban Education,  Equity and Excellence in Education and she recently released her first book, Restorying Young Adult Literature: Expanding Students’ Perspectives with Digital Texts, co-authored with colleagues Joshua Coleman and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.