Authors of Color on Twitter

I have been getting these tweets on twitter saying that search engines are not necessarily registering authors of color in searches. I know Collin Kelley has been keeping a list of poets of all kinds on his blog, but I figured I’d take somewhat of a cue from SheWrites, and share a list of authors of color that I know on Twitter.

I am fully aware that this list may be skewed toward poets and black authors, but I want to diversify this list to include all genres and cultural groups, so I plan to update it. Here’s a starter list. Please comment with any other people that might not be included.

Opal Palmer Adisa, author of I Name Me Name, Eros Muse, Caribbean Passion & others @OpalPalmerAdisa
Samiya Bashir, author of When the Apple Falls and Gospel @scryptkeeper
Remica L. Bingham, author of Conversion @remicabingham
Carleen Brice, Orange Mint and Honey, Children of the Waters and Lead Me Home @carleenbrice
Sharon Bridgforth, author of Love Conjure/Blues and The Bull-Jean Stories @SBridgforth
Antoinette Brim, author of Psalm of the Sunflower @AntoinetteBrim
Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Drive, Enplumada and From the Cables of Genocide @LornaDeeCe
Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and editor of Total Chaos @zentronix
Ching-In Chen, author of The Heart’s Traffic @chinginchen
Farai Chideya, author of Kiss the Sky and Don’t Believe the Hype @faraichideya
Staceyann Chin, author of The Other Side of Paradise, @staceyannchin
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me and editor of The Black Body, Shaking the Tree, and Becoming American @DanquahDiva
Oliver de la Paz, author of Furious Lullaby, Names Above Houses and the upcoming Requiem for the Orchard @Oliver_delaPaz
Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, co-authors of Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made @deberryandgrant
Chitra Divakaruni, author of Sistter of My Hear, Mistress of Spices, The Palace of Ilusions and Black Candle @chitradivakarun
Mitchell L.H. Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem @MLHDouglas
Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky @hdurrow
Cherryl Floyd-Miller, author of Exquisite Heats, Settling Sophia, Utterance: A Museology of Kin @Cherryl
LiseFunderburg, author of Pig Candy @LiseFunderburg
Nelson George, author of City Kid, Hip Hop America and The Death of Rhythm & Blues and others @nelsongeorge
Brian Gilmore, author of Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags and Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem @bumpyjonas
Sandra Guzman, author of The Latina’s Bible: The Nueva Latina Guide to Love, Sex, Spirituality, and La Vida @mellowmami
Duriel Harris, author of Drag @DrPoMo
Reggie Harris, author of Ten Tongues, @rmharris
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought @harrislacewell
Lee Herrick, author of This Many Miles from Desire @leeherrick
Marc Lamont Hill, author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity @marclamonthill
Akua Lezli Hope, author of Embouchureand other poetry collections @akualezli
Randall Horton, author of The Lingua France of Ninth Street and The Definition of Place @Hook1016
Luisa A. Igloria, author of Juan Luna’s Revolver and Trill & Mordent @ThePoetsLizard
Kenji Jasper, author of Snow, Dark, Cake and The House on Childress Street @youngjasper
Honoree Jeffers, author of The Gospel of Barbecue, Outlandish Blues and Red Clay Suite @HonoreeJeffers
Mat Johnson, author of Drop, Incognegro, Hunting In Harlem, Papa Midnite, and the upcoming Dark Rain @mat_johnson
Tayari Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling @tayari
Allison Joseph, author of Voice, Imitation of Life, In Every Seam and others @allisonjoseph
Nwenna Kai, author of the cookbook The Goddess of Raw Foods @nwennakai
John Keene, author of Annotations @jstheater
Ruth Ellen Kocher, author of One Girl Babylon and When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering @ruthellenkocher
Ana-Maurine Lara, author of Erzulie’s Skirt @zorashorse
Raina Leon, author of Canticle of Idols @rainaleon
Ada Limon, author of Lucky Wreck and This Big Fake World @adalimon
Dawn Lundy Martin, author of A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering @dawnlundy
Aaron McGruder, author of All the Rage, Birth of a Nation, A Right to Be Hostile, Boondocks: Because I Know You Don’t Read The Newspapers @aaronmcgruder
Indigo Moor, author of Taproot and Through the Stonecutter’s Window @indigomoor
Jessica Care Moore, author of The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto, and God Is Not an American @JessicaCareMoor
Urayoan Noel, author of Kool Logic and Borinquen, @urayoannoel
Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road, other novels and African Elegy @benokri
January O’Neill, author of Underlife @januaryoneil
Gregory Pardlo, author of Totem @pardlo
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, U.K.-based author of The Tail of the Bluebird and The Makings of You @BlueBirdTail
Felecia Pride, author of The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip Hop’s Greatest Songs, Patterson Heights, and YA novels @feliciapride
Barbara Jane Reyes, author of Poeta En San Francisco and the upcoming Diwata @bjanepr
Roger Robinson, U.K.-based author of The Red Suitcase and Suckle @rrobinson72
Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running, Music of the Mill, América is Her Name, My Nature Is Hunger and others @luisjrodriguez
Patrick Rosal, author of Uprock, Headspin, Scramble and Dive and My American Kundiman @patrickrosal
Tavis Smiley, author of Keeping the Faith, What I Know For Sure and others @TavisSmiley
Danyel Smith, author of More Like Wrestling and Bliss @danamo and @danyelsmith
Bryant Terry, author of Vegan Soul Kitchen and Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen @bryantterry
Lance Tooks, author of Narcissa: A Graphic Novel and Lucifer’s Garden of Verses @lancetooks
Toure, author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, The Portable Promised Land @ToureX
Rebecca Walker, author of Black, White, & Jewish and Baby Love @rebeccawalker
Michael Warr, author of We Are All the Black Boy @warrzone
Afaa M. Weaver, author of Multitudes and The Plum Flower Dance and others @Afaa_M_Weaver
Colson Whitehead, author of The Intuitionist, Sag Harbor, John Henry Days @colsonwhitehead
Crystal Wilkinson, author of Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries @CrystalWilki
Karen S. Williams, author of Elegy of a Scarred Shoulder @KSWPOETRYDOTCOM
Saul Williams, author of The Seventh Octave, She, and The Dead Emcee Scrolls @SaulWilliams