Author of five books, Shonda Buchanan is the author of Black Indian, which won the Indie New Generation Book Award for Memoir and was chosen by PBS NewsHour as a \”Top 20 Book to Read\” to learn about institutional racism. Her collection of poetry, Who’s Afraid of Black Indians? was nominated for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and the Library of Virginia Book Awards. An award-winning poet and educator, Shonda is a Sundance Writing Arts Fellow, a California Community Foundation Fellow, a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and Literary Editor at Harriet Tubman Press. In addition to her work as a literary activist, a teaching artist, and a mentor for young writers, she\’s taught at Hampton University, William & Mary College (Writer-in-Residence), California State University, Northridge, and Mt. San Antonio College. Vice President of the Board of Trustees for Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Shonda received an MFA at Antioch University. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.

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