Valerie Boyd

Valerie Boyd is the author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Scribner 2003). She is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Georgia and the former arts editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Ms. magazine, The Oxford American, Book magazine, The Washington Post, The New Crisis, Creative Nonfiction and African American Review. For her work on Wrapped in Rainbows, Boyd received the 2004 Georgia Author of the Year Award in nonfiction, an American Library Association Notable Book Award and the 2003 Southern Book Award for best nonfiction of the year.