The Lord's Supper Pattern Book: Imagining Harriet Powers' Lost Bible Story Quilt
Kyra E. Hicks is a quilter. Her quilts have appeared in more than forty exhibits in the United States and abroad. Her Black Barbie Quilt is in the permanent collection of the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York as is her Patriotic Quilt at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City.  Kyra loves historical, investigative research and rediscovering the lives of quilters past. She is the author of Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook (2003), the children’s book Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria (2007), and This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces (2009). Kyra hosts a blog on African American quilting news - www.BlackThreads.blogspot.com.  Kyra earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, a diploma from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BBA from Howard University. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, where she tends her colorful, fragrant rose garden.