Shalom Auslander is a prominent American essayist, memoirist, and novelist. His writing style is notable for its black humor, existentialist themes, and Jewish perspective. Furthermore, his non-fiction often draws comparisons to famous American author David Raymond Sedaris. On the other hand, his fiction has drawn comparisons to Groucho Marx, Samuel Beckett, and Franz Kafka. Additionally, Shalom books have been translated into over a dozen languages and are published around the globe.
Michele Wallace is an American black feminist author and cultural critic. She served as the founder and president of The Faith Ringgold Society in 2010. He was also an English professor at CUNY Graduate Center from 1993 to 2018. Additionally, she is the author of the 1979 book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.
Aurin Squire is an American reporter, playwright, and screenwriter. He has been a producer and writer for CBS shows including BrainDead, The Good Fight, and Evil. Furthermore, Aurin has also been the podcast co-host of Maxamoo.
Jessica Care Moore is an American internationally renowned poet, performance artist, playwright, and producer. She currently serves as the CEO of Moore Black Press and executive producer of BLACK WOMEN ROCK.
Nathan McCall is an American author, journalist, and professor. He is popular for authoring Makes Me Wanna Holler(1994). Furthermore, Nathan is also a senior at Emory University in the African American Studies Department.
Bettina Love (Full Name: Bettina L. Love) is a popular Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Education at the University of Georgia, where she served as an instrumental and a pioneer in establishing abolitionist teaching in schools. As reported by Love, abolitionist teaching refers to restoring humanity for children in schools.
Victor LaValle is an American author. He wrote a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. Victor’s fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.
Tayari Jones is a popular American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which became a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection, and received the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones is now a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently came back to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City.
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She is the writer of novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and The New Moon’s Arms. Also, Nalo has written short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often drawing on Caribbean history and language, as well as its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Yaa Gyasi is a well-known Ghanaian-American novelist. She is known for her debut novel Homegoing, published in 2016. Her novel was also selected for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. In addition, in 2020 she was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.