Donna Bryson
Donna Bryson is a Denver-based author and freelance journalist who also has lived in and reported from South Africa, India, Egypt and the UK. Her new book, Home of the Brave, explores the challenges a small Colorado town overcame when the community decided to be a more welcoming place for military veterans. Her previous book, It’s a Black White Thing, portrays race relations among young South Africans and won first place in the non-fiction book category of the National Federation of Press Women’s 2015 Communications Contest.
Founder of Muslim Girl magazine now writes fiction inspired by human rights, migration and identity
Ausma Zehanat Khan, 49, published her first book just four years ago. Her impressive output since then, which includes a short story featuring her detectives and a nonfiction children’s book about Ramadan, might attest to the pent-up creative energy she’s had since she was a teenager.
