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Lorene Cary is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of If Sons, Then Heirs; The Price of A Child; Black Ice; and Pride. She founded Art Sanctuary, which creates arts programs in urban Philadelphia for up to 10,000 participants a year. She received the Philadelphia Historical Society Founder's Medal for History in Culture and the city's highest civic honor, the Philadelphia Award. Her essays have appeared in publications including Newsweek, Time, Essence, and O Magazine.

“Lorene Cary is a deft, focused writer. Free! is yet another example of her ability to tell the astounding, immutable truth of what it means to be human.” -Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Winner of the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Leaving Cecil Street