Past Craft Talk Master Storytellers
Joel L. Daniels
“Joel's words are where I go when I need some inspiration. And he never lets me down." - Lin-Manuel Miranda (Yeah, that Lin.)
Joel L. Daniels is a Bronx born and raised performer, author and story-teller who writes and tells stories for Black people. Joel is the author of "Book About Things I Will Tell My Daughter" and "God Wears Durags, Too". His recent TED talk has been viewed over 1.4M times, globally. He’s worked with The Gates Foundation, HBO, Nike, Twitter, and the TODAY Show, and has been featured in Newsweek, Medium, BBC News, Sirius XM, Forbes, the Huffington Post, Blavity and others.
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the 2020 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award, a 2020 Publishing Triangle Award, and a 2020 Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his dog Caesar.