Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. Co-founder of http://bluelotusliving.com. BA in Speech Communication. Former ghostwriter who came back to life.

📚 Fiction author 💍 Wife 🎓 MBA 💾 Gen X 🌈 LBGTQIA+ friendly 🐶 Vegan 👁 Atheist ✍🏻 Published 🌿 #climatechangeisreal

In personal essays and memoirs, expect storytelling, sincerity, and a soupçon of sarcasm. 🇬🇧

Poet, lover, thinker, human. Poetry editor at Prism & Pen. www.thewordartist.net https://bsky.app/profile/thewordartist.net

A lapsed humanist currently doubting that there is hope for humankind. Yet, as the poet once wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers.”

Corporate puppeteer. Word wrangler. Support my habit: https://pdandreu.medium.com/subscribe