Carolyn Holbrook

Carolyn  Holbrook
Writer

 

Carolyn Holbrook was a 2015 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant. She was named a 2015 Change Maker by the MN Women’s Press for “More Than A Single Story,” her series of panel discussions on black women writers of the African Diaspora living in Minnesota held at the Loft Literary Center.

Her personal essays have been published widely, most recently in A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota (MHS Press) and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (MHS Press). Her book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journeys: How the St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods Program Changed Lives and Communities was published in 2013 & 2015.

She founded SASE: The Write Place in1993 and served as its Executive/Artistic Director until 2006, when she spearheaded its merger with Intermedia Arts. She teaches Creative Writing at Hamline University where she won the Exemplary Teacher award in 2013, and at Minneapolis Community & Technical College. She was a 2015-16 mentor for the Loft Mentor Series and was the 2010 recipient of the MN Book Awards Kay Sexton Award.

Holbrook was recently recognized as one of 50 Minnesotans over the age of 50 who have made significant contributions and achievements in their communities.

 

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