About Yaram

Born and raised in Chicago, Yaram Yahu has been writing for nearly twenty years. His debut traditional picture book, MY AFRO IS A RISING SUN, will be released in December 2024 with Running Kids Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. In addition to novel writing, Mr. Yahu also has over ten years of screenwriting and editorial experience. His editorial involvement includes Beacon Press, an independent book publisher who specializes in memoirs and nonfiction, distributed with Penguin Random House. You can also find his work published in Solstice Literary Magazine under Christopher J. Calhoun, a magazine of diverse voices. You can also find him published in Keystrokes: Volume III, Timbooktu, Finli, and The Stories They Tell! By The Young Voices Foundation.

Educationally, Mr. Yahu attended Emerson College’s writing, literature, and publishing program. He tutored children ages 6-18 at 826 Boston, an inner-city writing and publishing center. He also worked at Jumpstart, an AmeriCorps early education program devoted to children’s learning, language, and literacy skills.

Through his nonprofit Witness to the World, he started five schools in Pakistan and visited two shortly before the pandemic. He has also done volunteer orphanage work in Tanzania. When he was younger, he founded his own self-publishing company, Rainbows Publishing Inc. and self-published his first children’s book at age eleven entitled HEARTLAND.

WTTW Mission Statement

To Inspire, Educate, and Motivate the Gifts and Talents of the True Children Of YAHUAH scattered throughout all of the four corners of the world in every nation, region, tribe, and tongue By The Word Of YAHUSHA, providing resources, witnessing tools, and a Worldwide Immersions Network so that All will become Effective Witnesses Of The Great News, regardless of language, nationality and origin.

Let’s work together

  • In addition to writing, I also have editorial and ghostwriting experience. I’m a ghostwriter and editor for top New York writing firms such as Gotham Ghostwriters & Kevin Anderson and Associates. I specialize in children’s books (from picture books to YA across all genres), poetry, adult contemporary, memoir, serious nonfiction, diverse literature, and anything considered “poignant.” My editorial experience includes working at Beacon Press, which is one of the oldest publishers in America. I’ve also worked as a copy editor and prose editor at local Boston publishing houses and literary magazines.

  • As a marginalized author of color, I’m also available for cultural accuracy and sensitivity reading/editing. With my experience as a cultural accuracy reader and editor at Kevin Anderson & Associates, I know how important it is for a manuscript to be as fully authentic as possible.