I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm featured in Publishers Weekly! In the article, Pride Month 2025: To Be Young , Black, Queer and Falling in Love, Mariama talks about her inspiration for this novel, her obsession with lifetime holiday movies, and why representation is so important.
COVER REVEAL! I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm is a cozy YA romance from award winning author, Mariama J. Lockington. Out October 14, 2025.
On Monday, January 22nd the American Library Association hosted the Youth Media Awards at the 2024 LibLearnX conference. FOREVER IS NOW was among the winners, receiving the Schneider Family Book Award for Best Book for Teens. The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of […]
The New York Times calls In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington “a work of art, full of delights: appealing characters, camp traditions, light romance, middle school friendship, poetry, music, the pleasures of creative work.”
