Shay Youngblood
Shay Youngblood was a distinguished Georgia writer who followed Black roots and routes. Her novels, short stories, and plays explore themes of family and community, as well as topics such as history, ancestry, and sexual identity.
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Babbie Mason
Babbie Mason is an African American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and author. Her song “All Rise” was one of the most-recorded contemporary Christian songs of the 1990s.
Margaret Edson
Margaret Edson, a playwright and kindergarten teacher in Atlanta, is best known for Wit, a play about a literary scholar diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.
Kitty Clive
Irish comic actress, singer, and writer
Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Irish illustrator and writer
Ethna MacCarthy
Irish poet and paediatrician
Lisi Turrá
Argentine writer and architect
Iliana Vargas
Mexican writer and translator
Kelly AK
Mexican writer and translator
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.