Leila Mottley is the author of the novels NIGHTCRAWLING, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller, and THE GIRLS WHO GREW BIG, as well as the poetry collection WOKE UP NO LIGHT. She is also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live.

Books by Leila Mottley

Nightcrawling

by Leila Mottley - Fiction

NIGHTCRAWLING is a dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.