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• Marissa Monteilh
• Monique Morris
• Alexs Pate
• Kayla Perrin
• Myles & Sandra Pinkney
• Francis Ray
• Maryann Reid
• Afi-Odelia Scruggs
• Natasha Tarpley
• Raymond A. Winbush
• More Authors...
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Black History Month Author Roundtable
African-American writing is more than a genre for these twenty-two writers and illustrators. For Jabari Asim, Steven Barnes, Tonya Bolden, Michele Andrea Bowen, William Jelani Cobb, Michael Datcher, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, Phyllis Y. Harris, Mat Johnson, Kim McLarin, Marissa Monteilh, Monique Morris, Alexs D. Pate, Kayla Perrin, Myles and Sandra Pinkney, Francis Ray, Maryann Reid, Afi Scruggs, Natasha Tarpley and Raymond A. Winbush, their work carries a bigger mantle as they are representatives of a culture and, whether they choose to be, or not, role models to a younger generation of writers and readers. Here they speak out on their experiences as published authors, share advice with aspiring writers, and relate how being African-American impacts their work.
Note: Part two of this feature will be live on Friday, February 22nd.
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| Marissa Monteilh |
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| Monique Morris |
Monique W. Morris is a senior research associate with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. For several years she has led national efforts to address racial disparities in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. She has made presentations on the subject to the NAACP, the American Society on Criminology's Division on People of Color and Crime, and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus. She holds a B.A. and an M.S. from Columbia University. A writer, an accomplished artist, and a public speaker, Ms. Morris resides in Oakland, California, with her husband, Gregory. This is her first novel. If people are interested in reaching Monique or learning more about what NCCD does, the company's website is: www.nccd-crc.org.
NCCD's Website
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| Alexs Pate |
Alexs D. Pate's work has appeared in the Washington Post, Utne Reader, and Artpaper. The author of four novels, he is assistant professor of African American and African studies
Browse Alexs Pate's books on Amazon.com.
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| Kayla Perrin |
Kayla Perrin is originally from Toronto, Canada. She attended the University of Toronto
where she obtained a B.A. in English and Sociology. Deciding that she wanted to be a
teacher, she later attended York University and obtained a B.Ed.
Kayla fell in love with drama and performed in many stage plays as well as in
television and film productions. She has also worked as an assistant film editor. But
Kayla is most happy when writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1998, she
has sold thirteen more novels, including a children's novel, The Disappearance of
Allison Jones. She recently received an award voted as one of the Top Ten Favorite
Books of 1999 and is the first African-American romance to make this list. Likewise,
Kayla's debut novel was the first African-American romance to make the Top Ten on Ingram's
Most Requested Romances list.
Kayla Perrin's Website
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| Myles & Sandra Pinkney |
Myles and Sandra Pinkney are a husband and wife illustrator/author team whose books include Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children and A Rainbow All Around Me.
Browse Sandra Pinkney's books on Amazon.com.
Browse Myles Pinkney's books on Amazon.com.
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| Francis Ray |
After publishing fifteen
novels, and having Incognito made into a BET-TV movie, Blackboard best-selling
author, Francis Ray is known as one of the premiere African-American writers.
Francis has been recognized for the success of her contribution to the widely acclaim
anthologies such as Rosie's Curl & Weave and Della's House of Style. Her
latest heartfelt creation entitled The Turning Point is Ray's first
mainstream novel and is guaranteed to deliver the compassion and intensity of her previous
stories to audiences everywhere.
Francis Ray is a native Texan who lives in Dallas with her husband and her daughter. A
graduate of Texas Woman's University, she is a School Nurse Practitioner for the Dallas
Public School system.
Francis Ray's Website
Browse Francis Ray's books on Amazon.com.
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| Maryann Reid |
After transferring from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Maryann entered Fordham
University and majored in Media Studies/Journalism. While still in
college, Maryann wrote business and news stories for Black Enterprise magazine, a national
publication. After graduation Maryann, worked at CNN as a news desk assistant. As a young account coordinator at Edelman Public Relations
Worldwide and publicity assistant at publishing giant Penguin Putnam, she made public relations part of her diverse background. It was at
Penguin where she helped publicize major authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Alvarez, Lionel Sosa, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Randall Robinson.
After writing an article about publishing for NV magazine, she acquired an agent. A few months later she landed a deal with St. Martin's Press and is now
able to share her stories with others.
Born to Jamaican parents, Maryann Reid is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, New
York. She is currently at work on a novel. Her series Single Black Female can be found in the Open Book section of USA Today.com. In June
2002, the paperback edition of Sex and the Single Sister will be released.
Maryann Reid's Website
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| Afi-Odelia Scruggs |
Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs graduated from the University of Chicago and earned her Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics from Brown University. She has been a full-time journalist since 1987. She is currently a visiting professor of journalism at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Scruggs was a metro columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and has worked for the Dayton Daily News and the Clarion Ledger. She lives in Euclid, Ohio, with her husband.
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| Natasha Tarpley |
Natasha Tarpley is the author of Bippity Bop Barbershop, I Love My Hair, Girl in the Mirror, and Testimony: Young African Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity. Her work also appears in When Butterflies Kiss.
Browse Natasha Tarpley's books on Amazon.com.
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| Raymond A. Winbush |
Raymond A. Winbush, PH.D., is the director of the Race Relations Institute and the Benjamin Hooks Professor of Social justice at Fisk University. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Oakland College in Alabama and received a fellowship to attend the University of Chicago, where he received both his master's degree and Ph.D. in psychology. He was a consultant and writer for the Encyclopedia Africana Project and is treasurer and a member of the executive board of the National Council for Black Studies. He lives in Madison, Tennessee, and has raised his two sons using the Warrior Method.
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