HOPE LYNNE PRICE-LINDSAY (she/her/hers), a Co-Founder of the Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation. She is a children’s author, playwright, poet, and public-school arts educator.
Hope’s writing career began at an early age, with her very first poem published in Essence Magazine at the age of twelve. In the 1980s, DC Commission on Arts and Humanities awarded her a Larry Neal Fellowship for Poetry. She is the author of the children’s books, These Hands (1999) and Little Brown (2020), her debut novel Luke Warm (2013), and has penned four plays that have been produced in states across the country (MD, DC, NY, MA, KY). Hope is the founder and artistic director of the Bison Repertory Theater Company in the D.C. metropolitan area. She has performed Off-Broadway and in regional theater, in addition to small parts in television and film, and is a member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA. Hope earned a BFA at Howard University and studied playwriting at Kenyon College. http://hopelynneprice-lindsay.com.