Dancing with Langston

Sharyn Skeeter is a writer, poet, editor, and educator. She was fiction/poetry/book review editor at Essence and editor in chief at Black Elegance magazine. She's taught at Emerson College, University of Bridgeport, Fairfield University, and Gateway and Three Rivers community colleges. She participated in panel discussions and readings at universities in India and Singapore. Sharyn Skeeter has written and published numerous magazine articles. Her poetry and fiction are in journals and anthologies. She lives in Seattle where she's been involved with Humanities Washington and ACT Theatre. Her grandmother's Langston family and their oral history of Langston Hughes inspired Dancing with Langston.

Author photo: Teri Thompson Randall