Category: Civil Discourse & Social Justice

Taffa
Deborah
Deborah Taffa’s debut, Whiskey Tender, a 2024 National Book Award Finalist, has been named to best lists …
Taylor
Candacy
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning cultural documentarian, photographer, and the author of the bestsellin…
Thanhauser
Sofi
Sofi Thanhauser is a writer, artist, and musician, based in Brooklyn. She is the author of Worn: A People…
The Beautiful & Banned
Christine Renee Miller fancies herself an expert. Perhaps it’s because she always seems to play one on sc…
Michael E. Gray
Jamilah
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, M.S.Ed, is a Philadelphia-based, award-winning children’s book author. A forme…
Timmerman
Kelsey
Kelsey Timmerman is the New York Times bestselling author of the "Where Am I?" series: Where Am I Wearing…
Vasquez Gilliland
Raquel
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Mexican American poet, novelist and painter. She’s most inspired by fog and…
Velasquez
Elisabet
Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer, mother of two children from Brooklyn, New York, now living in Jer…
Vogel
Sarah
Sarah Vogel is the first woman elected state Commissioner of Agriculture in US history, and one of the na…
Vulchi
Priya
Priya Vulchi is the author of Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World (LegacyLit, April 2025). I…
Walker
Frank X
A native of Danville, Kentucky, Frank X Walker is the first African American writer to be named Kentucky …
Wallace Johnson
Kirk
Kirk Wallace Johnson is an author and screenwriter.  His books include The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear…