L D Wells

Award winning author, editor and speaker, L. D. Wells hails from Atlanta, Georgia. She received an English degree from the University of Georgia and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master of Arts in Education with emphasis in Instructional Technology.

L. D.’s first published work is that as Author and Co‐Editor of “An Anthology of Sisterhood” – a compilation of more than 100 original poems, essays, short stories and lyrics commissioned from twenty-two dynamic women who are all joined by their membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. This 2013 publication, with its forward written by the legendary Ruby Dee, was named as an

African American Literary and Indie Award nominee. Additionally, the tremendous exposure of the project has garnered the author a spot as a Delta Authors on Tour, has received a Visionary Award from the Black Women in Jazz and Fine Arts project in 2015 and added the 2016 Best Publication in Print from the Writers Ball to her list of accolades.

She has been commissioned to pen chronicles for national organizations and her work has also been deemed as required reading for a popular Ethnic Studies courses.

In 2018, L.D. and her business partner became co-benefactors of the Ruby Dee Legacy of Sisterhood Endowed Chair Scholarship – a merit based award given annually to an African‐Amercan female collegiate or graduate student majoring in one of the Humanities.

She is also the proud and devoted mother to one son, Devon.