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Award-winning journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Lyda Phillips' novels have been featured at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., on Memphis television talk show WREG's Live@9 and at the Downtown Memphis Rotary Club; the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn., the Children's Multicultural Book Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Inde Pen Series at Karibu Books, and the Baltimore Book Festival.

Lyda was born in San Antonio, Texas, went to school in Memphis, Tenn., and has degrees from Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt universities. She has worked as a journalist for trade papers, weeklies, dailies and United Press International. She has also worked for political campaigns, as a political pollster and public relations executive.

Her real love has always been writing.

Lyda is available for school visits. Please get in touch with her at [email protected] for more information.

Award-winning journalist, novelist and screenwriter Lyda Phillips' novels have been featured at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., on Memphis television talk show WREG's Live@9 and at the Downtown Memphis Rotary Club; the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn., the Children's Multicultural Book Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Inde Pen Series at Ka... More