Elizabeth Acevedo is an author, slam poet, and the first woman of color to win the Carnegie Medal children’s book award — and now she’ll be adding “screenwriter” to her résumé. According to Deadline, Acevedo is penning the film adaptation of her bestselling novel “With the Fire on High.” Picturestart has obtained the rights to the book with plans to develop and produce a movie.

Picturestart’s Lucy Kitada and Erik Feig are producing. No word on a director yet.

“With the Fire on High” hit shelves in May. The HarperCollins publication is the story of Emoni Santiago, a 17-year-old single mom living in Philadelphia. The only place she can de-stress is the kitchen, “where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness and pure joy for everyone in her life including her baby girl and her abuela,” the source synopsizes. “Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet, despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.”

Acevedo won the Carnegie Medal for “The Poet X,” her 2018 YA novel about a young woman who uses slam poetry to understand her mother’s faith. The book also received the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Acevedo is also the author of “Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths.” This year she was presented with the Pure Belpré Author Award “for celebrating, affirming, and portraying Latinx culture and experience.”