2021 AUTHORS — Leimert Park Book Fair

Our diverse panel of authors hail from throughout the Southern California region as well as nationally and internationally from around the globe. This year we are proud to present well-known best-selling authors, book club favorites, beloved children’s authors along with host of up-and-coming authors just making their mark in the literary world.

Elaine Parker Adams (Copy)

The Reverend Peter W. Clark: Sweet Preacher and Steadfast Reformer (Copy)

Angel Aviles (Copy)

Too Happy To Be Sad Girl (Copy)

Charlie Becker (Copy)

Friends My Poems Gave Me (Copy)

Steven Barnes (Copy)

Starborn & Godsons (Copy)

Jeaneen Benson (Copy)

Professor Mad Rhymes (Copy)

Cedrick D. Bridgeforth (Copy)

Alabama Grandson (Copy)

Camari Carter Hawkins (Copy)

Death by Comb (Copy)

Michael Catchpool (Copy)

Superjoe Does NOT Do Cuddles (Copy)

Stacey Culpepper (Copy)

Sakura (Copy)

Vanessa and Henry Dotson (Copy)

From Zion to a City of Hope (Copy)

Tananarive Due (Copy)

The Between (Copy)

Cheryl Fox (Copy)

Art of a Guest Pass (Copy)

Nikki Giovanni (Copy)

Make Me Rain (Copy)

Paula Golden (Copy)

Ten Cuddly Pandas And Then There Was (Copy)

Sufia Giza (Copy)

Mound Builders of Ancient America (Copy)

Wendy Gladney Dean (Copy)

Forgiveness | Change Your Life Forever (Copy)

Tiffany Heard (Copy)

Hues of Africa (Copy)

Jennifer Hopson (Copy)

Sticky Wicky Starfish (Copy)

Ashley S. Johnson (Copy)

My Daddy, The King (Copy)

Rob Kenner (Copy)

The Marathon Don't Stop (Copy)

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn (Copy)

Swirling (Copy)

Imani Kaliid (Copy)

There Was Violence (Copy)

Areva Martin (Copy)

Awakening (Copy)

Tyler Merritt (Copy)

I Take My Coffee Black (Copy)

Jason Mott (Copy)

Hell of a Book (Copy)

Victoria Christopher Murray (Co-Author) (Copy)

The Personal Librarian (Copy)

Yvonne Orji (Copy)

Bamboozled by Jesus (Copy)

Krina Patel-Sage (Copy)

My Mindful A to Zen (Copy)

Jean Perry (Copy)

Mozay of Pepperwick (Copy)

Alex Petunia (Copy)

Tending my Wild (Copy)

Barbara A. Perkins (Copy)

Restoration - Seven Promises of God (Copy)

Gary Phillips (Copy)

Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem (Copy)

Poet U.B (Copy)

Kolorblind Soul (Copy)

Rene Rawls (Copy)

Sule The Proverb Detective (Copy)

K'Renee (Copy)

Reflecting New Perspectives (Copy)

Willa Robinson (Copy)

52 Ways to Love My Man (Copy)

Andrés Sánchez (Copy)

This Body (Copy)

Pamela Samuels Young (Copy)

Failure to Protect (Copy)

Don Tate (Copy)

Pigskins to Paintbrushes (Copy)

Felicia Taylor E. (Copy)

Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl's Tale (Copy)

Trisha R. Thomas (Copy)

What Passes as Love (Copy)

Tara L. Thompson (Copy)

Clara's Curse (Copy)

Miki Turner (Copy)

journey to the woman i've come to love (Copy)

Nicole D. Vick (Copy)

Pushing Through (Copy)

Gregory W. Walton II (Copy)

Melanin Born Kings (Copy)

Kamisha Wells (Copy)

Royal Divazz Kidz (Copy)

Binnie Tate Wilkin (Copy)

African American Librarians in the Far West (Copy)

conney d. williams (Copy)

The distance of observation (Copy)

Ron Williams (Copy)

The Right Man Business Plan for Women (Copy)

Saundra Henderson Windom (Copy)

Orchestration (Copy)

Tina Bell Wright (Copy)

360°: A Blueprint to Black Self-Determination (Copy)

Cynthia Young (Copy)

Grammy Doesn't Know Me: Alls Hi Mers Took Her Memories (Copy)

Hurston/Wright Foundation 2021 Non-Fiction Writers

Featured

Soyica Diggs Colbert

Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Interim Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where she is also the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts. She has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.

She is also an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Colbert is the author of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and The African American Theatrical Body. Colbert co-edited Race and Performance After Repetition and The Psychic Hold of Slavery. Most recently, she served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land. [@DrSoyica]

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a career journalist, author and adjunct instructor at the USC Annenberg Specialized Journalism program. She is also Associate Director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, part of USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Before her appointments at USC, Janice headed Special Projects at the Los Angeles Review of Books and Senior Editor of Women, Culture and Media.

Janice is currently writing a memoir exploring the history of her family and food in East Tennessee, as well as a collection of short stories centered on life, love, and reclamation during menopause. [@janicerhoshalle]

Derrick Reaves

Derrick Reaves, a native New Yorker, is an introspective essayist focused on African American mental health and sociopolitical issues. Spurred by the 2020 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, Reaves has been asserting his voice through his writing to comment on the times in which we live. He attended Florida State University majoring in biology and psychological studies. Reaves is working on a collection of essays for a forthcoming book. [@d_dayze]

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Marie Sutton

Marie Sutton is a freelance writer in Birmingham, Alabama with a passion for writing about the African American experience. She has served as an essayist, radio talk show host, blogger, and editorial writer. Marie penned a book about the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, which was the only place African Americans could stay for first-class hotel accommodations during the civil rights movement. She is currently writing a publication about The Magic City Classic and has a working manuscript on the life of her indomitable grandmother. Marie is married and is the mother of two brilliant teens. [@marieasutton]

Leah Tucker

Born and raised in Scottsboro, Alabama, Leah Tucker’s writing explores modern African American folklore, through multiple genres. She attended The University of Alabama and The New School and worked as a grassroots organizer for both local and national nonprofits. Currently, Tucker is working on her first book and lives in West Philadelphia, considering the city her anthropological playground. [@jawneegoddess]

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