Tracy Chiles McGhee

Tracy Chiles McGhee is an award-winning, multi-genre writer and the author of the much acclaimed novel, Melting the Blues. McGhee received six awards for the novel, among them the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) Bronze Medal for Regional Fiction (South); the 2017 Honor Book (Fiction) at the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Self-Publishing Literary Awards; and the 2016 Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award for First Fiction. She also received Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards (Mainstream Literary Fiction) and was a Finalist in the prestigious 2014 William Faulkner–William B. Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel-in-Progress Category. McGhee, along with Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander, co-founded the Literacy Empowerment Action Project. She graduated from Catholic University Law School and Georgetown University and currently lives in Washington, DC, where she is a participating author in the Pen/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools Program and a frequent speaker at the DC Public Library. www.tracychilesmcghee.com