Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator and performance artist in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. She is co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook “Soul Food Love.” Her debut collection of poetry, “Lucy Negro, Redux,” has been turned into a ballet by the Nashville Ballet — Caroline performed her poetry as an integral member of the cast, all set to an original score by multiple-time Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 people changing the South,” the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, CherryBombe, Garden and Gun, Essence and The New York Times. Most recently, she was ranked by The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans of 2020.
During her time in Woody Creek, CO Caroline is working on her first full length non fiction book, Body Politik, which will examine the stories written on and by the body, through the lens of her personal experience living in a black woman’s body in America, and exploring the insights that lived experience provides.
Click HERE to read Caroline’s NYT Essay You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument
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