Ntozake Shange Editor & Author

Frank Stewart has been a journalist, editor, speaker, educator, author, and award-winning photographer. He has contributed to Sweet Swing Blues: On the Road a Year with Wynton Marsalisand His Septet, The Sweet Breath of Life, and Tyranny Lessons.

Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown; and Liliane.