About the Author

Randi Pink, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, is an acclaimed author, educator, and jazz vocalist with a rich and diverse background. Her novels include critically acclaimed Angel of Greenwood and Girls Like Us, recognized as a School Library Journal Best Book of 2019, We are the Scribes, in which present-day Ruth exchanges time-shifting scrolls with 19th-century abolitionist and formerly enslaved writer Harriet Jacobs, and Under the Heron’s Light, set in the historic Great Dismal Swamps.

Pink served as Alabama’s 2024 Fellow for Literary Arts in South Art’s Inaugural Southern Literary Fellowships and 2025’s Alabama State Council of the Arts Fellow for Prose. Through historical fiction, Pink introduces national and international audiences to lesser-known events and figures in American history.

An avid gardener, she’s building a small homestead for herself and her children in a little train depot town called Irondale, Alabama. She grows great zinnias, thrives in calm spaces and is a bit of a bitch about her collards.