Georgia's 50 Most Influential Women For 2007 

Tina McElroy Ansa

Novelist, Filmmaker, and Teacher

Also a journalist, Tina considers herself, above all, a storyteller.  She calls herself "part of a long and honored writing tradition, one of those little Southern girls who always knew she wanted to be a writer."  She grew up in Middle Georgia in the 1950s hearing her grandfather's stories on the porch of her family home and strangers' stories downtown in her father's juke joint, stories which have inspired Mulberry, Georgia, the mythical world of her four novels, Baby of the Family, The Hand I Fan With, Ugly Ways, and You Know Better.  She is currently at work on her fifth novel.

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