For Episode 27, That Social Work Lady welcomes author B. Angela Redd to the studio to discuss community, family, and her writing process.
Since the age of twelve years old Redd has believed she was destined to be a writer after completing her first play and corralling neighborhood kids to read for parts, study their lines, and show up on time daily for rehearsal. Her passion for writing never ceased throughout the years. It would be thirty years before Redd put family, career, and life on pause, faced down the paralyzing fear and self-doubt she’d known from years of low self-esteem and mustered the courage to do what she knew was her God-given assignment - write.
B. Angela Redd realized her dream on April 29, 2022, when she published her first novel, Willfully Blind. A literary fiction writer to her core, she masterfully seized and conveyed the depths of her characters through a story both complex and thematic. With a three-tier Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, Political Science, and Sociology from the University of Michigan- Dearborn, B. Angela Redd’s background lends her passion for writing, political and social justice, and mental wellness. She has always retained a heart for those struggling with mental illness, hence her decision to work for a community mental health agency advocating for vulnerable adults struggling with mental illness and developmental disabilities for the past eighteen years.
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