Hope Lynn Price-Lindsay is a poet, playwright, author, public school teacher, and artistic director of the Bison Repertory Theater Company in the Washington, DC area. Born and raised in St. Louis, she published her first poem in Essence Magazine at the age of twelve. She has written plays that have been produced in theaters across the country, and she has performed on the stage and in film and television. She is the recipient of the Larry Neal Fellowship for Poetry and is the author of These Hands and Luke Warm.