Tracy Price-Thompson
Tracy Price-Thompson (born 1963) is an American speaker, novelist, editor, and retired United States Army Engineer Officer. She is a decorated veteran of the Gulf War. Early life and education. Tracy Price-Thompson was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of NoireMagazine.com, and a former book reviewer for "QBR: The Quarterly Black Review". She holds an undergraduate degree in business, and a master's degree in social work. She is a Ralph Bunche graduate Fellow at Rutgers University. Career. She is the CEO of Versatile Voices Entertainment Group  and a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Price-Thompson self-published her first novel, "Black Coffee," at the age of 37. It was quickly bought by Random House imprint, Striver's Row, as part of an unprecedented three-book, six-figure deal, and became a bestseller. She has since published five other novels: "Chocolate Sangria", "A Woman's Worth", "Knockin' Boots", "Gather Together in My Name" and "1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E". Price-Thompson's novel, "A Woman's Worth", which illuminated the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa, won the 2005 Hurston /Wright Legacy Award for Contemporary Fiction. Price-Thompson went on to publish another weighty, socially conscious novel in "Gather Together in My Name", which highlighted racial profiling, prosecutorial corruption, and the disproportionate application of the death penalty for minorities in the criminal justice system. Price-Thompson's short memoir, "Bensonhurst: Black and Then Blue", published in Simon & Schuster’s anthology series "Children of the Dream: Our Stories of Growing Up Black in America", describes her experiences as a young black child helping to integrate the public schools of New York City. The work is encapsulated in the Library of The  National Humanities Center in "The Making of African American Identity Volume III" under the theme "Overcome?" Price-Thompson's non-fiction credits also include: Price-Thompson has edited three anthologies of fiction including, "Proverbs for the People", published by Kensington Publishers, which was the first major collection of Black fiction since Terry McMillan's "Breaking Ice". She also edited and contributed to two volumes in the Sister4Sister Empowerment Series: "Other People's Skin", with stories that sought to acknowledge, examine, and heal the "skin/hair thang" between Black women; and "My Blue Suede Shoes", which empowered victims of domestic violence  to walk away from abusive environments. Price-Thompson's title story in the collection "Other People's Skin", also won a Hurston/Wright Award for short fiction. Her short fiction credits include: Price-Thompson wrote and produced the stage play "Colored Girls", adapted from the choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange. Her keynote speeches include "On Writing" at the Claude Brown Writing Workshop in Washington, DC, and "The Niagara Project" in Honolulu, Hawaii. Price-Thompson served as a judge on the 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Panel. Tracy Price-Thompson