About Des Hall

Desmond Hall was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and moved to Jamaica, Queens. Desmond’s latest YA novel, BETTER MUST COME is a fiercely evocative, action- packed young adult thriller that won the Caricon Prize for Caribbean YA literature. Honors prize Massachusetts Book Awards. The In the Margins Book Award Committee selected the book as a top ten title. The novel is on the YA Fiction Recommendation list. It’s a JLG selection of the month and a Booklist STARRED review calls it “A well-plotted, taught page-turner.” He’s also written YOUR CORNER DARK, a YA novel that was one of Bank Street’s Best YA novels of 2021, a finalist for the New England Book Award, a Nominee for the Yalsa audio book award and the Kansas NEA Reading Circle, Essence Magazine’s 19 Children’s book list, and included on several MUST READ lists including Buzzfeed and WBUR. He's worked as both a high school Biology teacher and English teacher, counseled at-risk teens from Riker’s Island prison, and served as Spike Lee’s creative director in the advertising business where he’s won multiple awards and written two Superbowl commercials. And was named one of Variety Magazine’s 50 Creatives to Watch.