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Crystal Wilkinson

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CRYSTAL WILKINSON is the author of The Birds of Opulence, winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award in Literary Excellence, Blackberries, Blackberries , winner of the 2002 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature and Water Street , a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is also the recipient of awards and fellowships from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship Fund at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the recent winner of the 2008...

Toni Tipton-Martin

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Toni Tipton-Martin is a culinary journalist, author and community activist who has dedicated her career to building a healthier community. She is the author of the James Beard Award-winning The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, a book that celebrates the important legacy of African American cooks and their cookbooks and the forthcoming Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking. She is the winner of a the 2015 Art of Eating Prize and the recipient of the 2015 Certificate of Outstanding Contribution to Publishing from the Black Caucus of the Library Association. She founded a...