Please join us in the Langston Room for this Author event featuring Author Monika M. Picket. Pretty Boy Blue is a coming-of-age tale about an African-American girl coming to terms with her sexuality.

Monika M. Pickett is a former advertising sales executive with the Washington Times and the National Society of Black Engineers. She is a veteran of the United States Army. She served as a medic in Operation Desert Storm and received an honorable discharge in 1991. She earned a Masters of Human Services degree from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 2001 and an MBA from The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland in 2005. She currently lives in Chicago, Illinois