Dr. Ramona L. Hyman, writer, speaker, professor, serves as Department Chair and professor of English at Oakwood University. She earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the founder of the African American Healers Conference. African American critic Dr. Joyce Joyce says, Hyman [ is a writer who] “challenges readers to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro- American poetic vernacular. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong . . .intellectual poetic voice.” Her research and speaking interests are the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, African American poetry, and the Healing Poetic in African American Thought. Dr. Hyman's literary work has been included in journals and anthologies such as Message, African American Review, African American Pulpit, College Language Association Journal, Obsidian, and Callaloo. She has been anthologized in Amiri and Amini Baraka's An Anthology of African American Women Writers (Marrow Press). She is the author of the collections of poetry, In the Sanctuary of a South and I Am Black America. Dr. William Ferris, former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, says“Hyman’s skills as an actor and writer are rare.” Contact: Ramona L. Hyman, PhD ramona.hyman@yahoo.com