Kekla Magoon (born 1980) is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated young adult novel The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X.

[10] Magoon's sixth young adult novel X is a fictionalized account of civil rights activist Malcolm X's formative years and co-authored with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz.

[12] Her seventh Middle Grade novel, The Season of Styx Malone, about three African American boys living in a small town in Indiana, United States, who swap their little sister for fireworks, was published by Wendy Lamb books in 2018.

[13] Magoon says that she loosely based the novel on a real event from her childhood, when an ice cream parlor clerk in North Carolina told them about how his father and uncle once tried to trade their baby sister.

Her novels Light It Up,[15] The Season of Styx Malone,[13] X,[16] and Ibi Zoboi's anthology Black Enough[17] that she contributed a short story for, and How It Went Down[18] have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly.

"[22] School Library Journal gave starred reviews to Rebellion of Thieves,[23] Jessica Spotswood's anthology A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls,[24] and The Season of Styx Malone.