Kardea Brown is a contemporary Southern Chef, author of the New York Times bestseller The Way Home, and the creator of the New Gullah Supper Club pop-up, where her menu pays homage to dishes her grandmother and mother passed down to her. She is the host of the hit show Delicious Miss Brown and Kids Baking Championship.

Her forthcoming book, Make Do with What You Have: 100 Delicious New Recipes from Favorite Old-School Meals, will be published this November.

Suleika inspires our writers to keep journaling and reminds us:

I have long believed that journaling allows you to alchemize isolation into creative solitude. As it happens, reading also enacts that shift. Rather than feeling trapped and alone with your thoughts, you’re in conversation. You’ve got company.

Supporting young writers is near and dear to her heart, and Suleika has founded The Alchemy Fund, which directly impacts Girls Write Now.

Join us in celebrating Suleika.

Dana is Professor of African American literature and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University.

She is former president of the College Language Association and the Modern Languages Association, and is the author of Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship, In the Light of Likeness—Transformed: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest.

She is also the editor of several books. Her work has been published in prestigious journals, including PMLA, CLA Journal, African American Review, Early American Literature, American Literary History, and the Langston Hughes Review.