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Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.

Holly Iglesias

Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator, and author of poetry collections Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010) and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008).

Brigitte Muir

In 1997, Brigitte Muir was the first Australian woman to climb Mt Everest.

Kate Jordan

Irish novelist and playwright

Ericka Huggins

Black Panther, university lecturer and poet

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.

Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.