Andrea Ruth Ransom Canaan, MSW, MFA, is a contributor to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua with her lauded essay, “Brownness.”
Canaan is the founder of A Writer’s Life (AWL), providing skills and support services for Disabled, Neurodivergent, BIPOC, and LGBTQAI+, writers. A Writer’s Life’s commitment is to celebrate the creative wealth and the success of writers by cultivating individual and collective worth, leadership, craft, discipline, and stamina toward the completion and publication of their work.