Ginger McKnight-Chavers is an author and attorney whose novel, In the Heart of Texas (She Writes Press), won a 2016 USA Best Book Award. A native Texan, she is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, and was a Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College. McKnight-Chavers was a contributor to Oil and Water: And Other Things That Don’t Mix, and has written for Essence, ShareBlue, The Huffington Post, and other publications. She currently resides in New York.