Tina McElroy Ansa
Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer
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Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.
Eliza Bennis
Irish-American methodist activist and diarist
Barbara Fitzgerald
Irish novelist
Dr Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Dr. Douglas has mapped the discourse of gender and letters in the Arab Middle East and applied her insights to American culture.
Jhumpa Lahiri
In her works of fiction, Dr. Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging.
Elaine Brown
African-American political activist
Jacqueline Woodson
Popular writer of books for young people
Marian Alexis Scott
President and chair of the board of directors of the Atlanta Daily World newspaper
Susan Myrick
Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.