Minnette Coleman is an author, actress and singer born in Atlanta, Georgia. She has lived in New York City for almost 25 years. Having performed off-off Broadway she has toured her one woman show on the civil rights movement in the south, been a teacher actress for The Creative Arts Team at New York University and is a member of the esteemed Harlem Writer's Guild, one of the oldest literary organizations in the country.

Her first published novel was the much-acclaimed 'The Blacksmith's Daughter' about the colored middle-classes in Atlanta in the 1920s.