Shay Youngblood was an Atlanta-based writer, visual artist and educator. Author of several novels, collections of short stories and numerous essays, her published plays include a stage adaptation of Amazing Grace by children’s author Mary Hoffman. Her last projects included two children’s books, Mama’s Home (Make Me a World/Random House, 2022) and Family Prayer (Convergent/ Random House, 2022); Luna, a superhero graphic novel collaboration; and The Architecture of Soul Sound, a multimedia performance work about architecture, memory and the environment inspired by research in Japan, China and the U.S. She was a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission board member.
