Contributor
Valerie Boyd
Valerie Boyd is the author of the critically acclaimed Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston and editor of the forthcoming Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker (Simon & Schuster, April 2022) and Bigger Than Bravery: Black Writers on the Year That Changed the World (Lookout Books, Fall 2022). She is an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Georgia, where she founded and directs the low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appétit, the Oxford American, Essence, and Atlanta magazine, among other publications. She is the senior consulting editor for the Bitter Southerner and an editor at large at UGA Press.
Recent Writing
Tracing Literary Lineage
On what's missing from most anthologies, how shared texts create soulmates, and why we need more editors of colorIssue 76
In Search of Alice Walker, or, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice Walker hasn’t arrived yet. On this warm, wet October evening, a patchwork quilt of people is gathering at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Macon, Georgia. The mayor is here, along with several members of the City Council.Issue 12
