Five Books That Have Inspired Maleka's Creativity

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art Life Museum by Keri Smith (Penguin, $14.95)

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (Random House, $14.00)

Run Toward Fear by Haki R. Madhubuti (Third World Press, $12.00)

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (Random House, $15.95)

Creative Family by Amanda Soule (Random House, $18.95)

May 2010, Maleka Fruean