“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dr. Ramona Hyman 'Ms. Ramona'Professor | Published Author | Speaker | Writer | Creative Writing CampSMART Director
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Dr. Ramona L. Hyman is a writer, speaker and professor “whose words are powerful memories for us to walk in the 21st century,” says poet Sonia Sanchez.
Presently, Hyman serves as professor of English at Oakwood University and as the State of Alabama Governor’s appointee for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. .
She has served as a professor at Alabama A&M University. Dr. Hyman is a graduate of Temple University (BA), Andrews University (MA), and earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong Black intellectual poetic voice” and is the co-editor of African American Seventh-day Adventist Healers in a Multi-cultural Nation (Pacific Press).
She is the author of the collection of poetry I Am Black America. Presently Hyman is working on a collection of essays-- “Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Lessons from the Boycott,” and “Jesus in Alabama,” a poetry collection.
Dr. Hyman has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alabama Humanities Alliance, and Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Dr. Hyman is the co-founder and director of CampSMART's Creative Writing Camp - this two-week camp, students learn the poetic forms, i.e., tanka, sonnet, cinquain and write and publish a book.
African American critic Dr. Joyce Joyce says, “Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro-American poetic vernacular.
Presently, Hyman serves as professor of English at Oakwood University and as the State of Alabama Governor’s appointee for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. .
She has served as a professor at Alabama A&M University. Dr. Hyman is a graduate of Temple University (BA), Andrews University (MA), and earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong Black intellectual poetic voice” and is the co-editor of African American Seventh-day Adventist Healers in a Multi-cultural Nation (Pacific Press).
She is the author of the collection of poetry I Am Black America. Presently Hyman is working on a collection of essays-- “Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Lessons from the Boycott,” and “Jesus in Alabama,” a poetry collection.
Dr. Hyman has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alabama Humanities Alliance, and Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Dr. Hyman is the co-founder and director of CampSMART's Creative Writing Camp - this two-week camp, students learn the poetic forms, i.e., tanka, sonnet, cinquain and write and publish a book.
African American critic Dr. Joyce Joyce says, “Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro-American poetic vernacular.