Bill Minor, a native of Hammond, Louisiana, has covered Mississippi politics since 1947 as a reporter and syndicated columnist. He was the Mississippi correspondent for the Times-Picayune...

Jess Minton currently works as a data visualization specialist for Slalom Consulting, New York, after spending several years as a geospatial consultant in the Washington D.C. area.

Sophie Ernst Mintz is a dance artist and writer. Born in Boston, she grew up in Claremont, CA and Chapel Hill, NC, with childhood stints in India and Pakistan.

Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American writer, attorney, speaker, activist, UN Global Expert, and an award-winning author. Her latest book, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, was released...

Lenard D. Moore, founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, has had poems, essays, and reviews published in several journals and newspapers.

Soprano Andrea Edith Moore brings to her performances an “opalescence that is particularly served by her impressive phrasing and inherent musicality” (operagasm.com), and “wows...

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Kelli Morgan is a curator, author, educator, and anti-racism activist.

David Rae Morris was born in Oxford, England, and grew up in New York City. His photographs have been published in such diverse publications as National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, USA...

Ben Mylius is a creative writer and a political theorist with a background in law. He’s originally from Australia, but now living in New York City, where he is completing a PhD at...

Jeanine Navarrete is a historian by training and a higher education consultant by profession. A native of Miami, Florida, Jeanine received her M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the...

Born and raised in Brookhaven Mississippi, Moreton Neal learned to cook at her grandmother’s knee and learned to eat well in New Orleans. With Bill Neal, whom she met and married while at...

Alyson Neel is a native Louisianan and professional feminist. After graduating from LSU, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey, where she worked for 2.5 years as a journalist.

Teresa Nicholas’s first book, Buryin’ Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest, was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi in the...

A native of Charlotte, NC, Elaine Nichols is the Supervisory Curator of Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which opens in 2016.

Carol Offen, a writer/editor who retired from RTI International where she edited mostly health-related materials, is a kidney donor.

Sam Olden is from Yazoo City, the Gateway to the Mississippi Delta, where he was born in 1919 to a family of Mississippi planters.

Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013. She has won the Discovery/Boston Review prize and was named a Lambda Emerging...

Inas Omar, from Cairo, Egypt, is an architect by profession who has found her true calling in helping those who want to help themselves. She does that through the NGO she co-founded, Nahdet...

In addition to A Different Sun, Elaine Neil Orr has published a memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life; co-edited a collection of essays on international childhoods, Writing...

Erik Niel was raised in Mandeville, Louisiana, a community on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain and an hour away from the Gulf, where he spent afternoons fishing and duck hunting with...

Craig Nova has published 14 novels, which have been widely translated, and he has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a grant from...

Graduate of the UNC-Greensboro MFA program, editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, vice president of the Poetry Council of North Carolina and the North Carolina Poetry Society, and author of...

David Owings serves as university archivist for Columbus State University in the Simon Schwob Library.

María (Maritere to family and Spanish-speaking friends) came to the US as an exchange student in 1978. She fell in love, married and eventually became a US citizen, despite her...

Artist/author Jan B. Parker lives and works in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Her publishing credits include the 2009 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Main Street Rag Quarterly Journal, MoonShine...

James T. Parrish, Jr. is a fundraiser, artist, and leader in the Richmond, Virginia, arts community with more than twenty-four years of fundraising experience in higher education and the...

Tyler D. Parry is an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, he received a B.A....

Ash Parsons is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Clown College as well as other, more traditional schools. She is a PEN America Literary Award Winner for the Phyllis...

Travel writer and TV reporter turned novelist, Peggy Payne is author of three novels. Her first, Revelation, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice with screen rights sold to...

James L. Peacock is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World.