Kathy Iandoli

In 2016, Iandoli co-wrote Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook with Hip Hop artist Prodigy. It featured a foreword by chef and food personality Eddie Huang and was published by Infamous Books.[2]

God Save The Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop[3] was published in 2019 by Dey Street Books. God Save the Queens pays tribute to the women of Hip Hop from the early work of Roxanne Shante, to hitmakers like Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott, to the superstars of today like Megan Thee Stallion, while exploring issues of gender, money, sexuality, violence, body image, feuds, and objectification.[4] NPR listed God Save The Queens as one of their Favorite Books of 2019.[5]

Iandoli is also the author of Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, a biography that will profile the late R&B star Aaliyah, drawing on interviews with her friends, mentors and family, and document how her career influenced a new generation of artists. It has not yet been authorized by the Haughton family. It will be released on August 17, 2021 by Atria Books an imprint of Simon & Schuster.[6]

Iandoli lives in Northern New Jersey and is of Italian descent. [7] She is the daughter of Anna Acquaviva Iandoli, a professor who taught at Montclair State University and William Paterson University. In honor of her mother's passing in 2019, Kathy organized a scholarship through e-tech company Yellowbrick called Annie's Daughters, which provides young women an opportunity to take part in Yellowbrick's Music Industry Essentials Program in conjunction with New York University.[8] Kathy also had a school named in her mother's honor in their hometown of Paterson, New Jersey called The Anna Iandoli Early Learning Center. Anna taught in Paterson for over 30 years and developed curricula around the world, as well as was an advocate for the importance of early childhood literacy. Kathy cites her as the main reason why she is a writer of books, as her mother taught her to read, well before the age of three.