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Georgette M. Norman is a writer of prose and poetry (for mental gymnastics and peace of mind) since childhood. She has published in several issues of the Cruzan Satellite, a 1986 anthology of new poets; Catalyst, a magazine of heart and mind, Salon literary arts magazine; and First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writer's Forum. In 1986 she completed a Black woman's calendar/appointment book chronicling the achievements of Black women; a two-year calendar was published in 1991. In 1993 she self-published her first book of poems, From These Roots, Poems by Georgette Norman. Georgette founded and served as executive director of the Alabama African American Arts Alliance under the auspices of the Alabama State Council of the Arts and was the first director of Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum. She sees herself as an observer and active participant in life and believes each person's life to be their self-portrait, their masterpiece. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, Riché Richardson is professor and chair in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Her op-eds and essays have appeared widely in national and international print and broadcast media, journals, and books. Her Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta was named among the ""Outstanding Academic Titles of 2008"" by Choice Books and Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body won the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL). Since 2005, she has coedited the New Southern Studies book series at the University of Georgia Press. She is also an artist whose mixed-media quilts have been featured in various exhibitions, including at the Rosa Parks Museum, which founding director Georgette Norman made a ""welcoming home"" for her.

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