Penny Mickelbury

PENNY MICKELBURY is a trailblazing author and an award-winning playwright. She is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat, and is a recipient of the Audre Lorde Estate Grant. Before focusing on literary pursuits, Penny was a pioneering newspaper, radio, and television reporter based primarily in Washington, D.C., wrote journalistic non-fiction and was a frequent contributor to such publications as B lack Issues Book Review ,...See more

PENNY MICKELBURY is a trailblazing author and an award-winning playwright. She is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook Women Writers Retreat, and is a recipient of the Audre Lorde Estate Grant. Before focusing on literary pursuits, Penny was a pioneering newspaper, radio, and television reporter based primarily in Washington, D.C., wrote journalistic non-fiction and was a frequent contributor to such publications as B lack Issues Book Review , Africana.com, and the Washington Blade . In 2019 she joined the other members of the Washington Post's Metro Seven as an inductee into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. See less