Calaya Michelle Stallworth

A novelist and essayist, Calaya Michelle Stallworth is a creative writing professor in Atlanta. She earned a doctorate in English at Georgia State University. She has published 10 novels under the pen name Grace Octavia with Kensington and Harlequin. Instagram: @blackwritergonerogue

I don’t care who killed Michael Brown: And neither should you

August 14, 2014

Following a late night Facetime debate with my grandmother last night, I found myself on YouTube seeking snippets of artist Kanye West’s politically charged post-Hurricane Katrina 2005 pronouncement that sitting president “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” During a

Advanced Degree to Success: Road Map to the Top of the Corporation

September 22, 2011

When Floyd Hall enrolled in one of the nation’s most successful MBA programs at Columbia University, he was looking to change careers and strike out on his own. The Morehouse College and Georgia Institute of Technology graduate knew that going