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CEAMAG 66th Annual Conference – "Transformations” - 15 March 2024

Keynote Speaker Bio: Tricia Elam Walker is an award-winning author, educator, and recovered lawyer. Her first novel, Breathing Room, was published by Simon & Schuster/PocketBooks in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Essence and other publications. She has provided commentary for NPR, CNN, the BBC and more.

Tricia’s short stories are included in the O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South and other anthologies. Her essays are published in Father’s Songs, Dream Me Home Safely, It’s All About Love, and more. Several of her plays have been produced and her two children’s books (Nana Akua Goes to School, which won a 2021 Children’s Africana Book Award and the 2021 Ezra Jack Keats writer award and Dream Street, which was a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2021 selection) were published by Random House during the pandemic.

She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University and lives in Maryland with her husband.

Questions about the conference should be sent to CEAMAG President Ada Vilageliu-Díaz: ada.vilageliudiaz1@udc.edu .

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