How to Write Your Contributor Bio

Sample Contributor Bios + How to Write Your Own

What to include:

• Your name

• Where you’re based (city/state optional)

• A sentence about your work, art, or passions

• A sentence about why this project matters to you

Examples:

• Tanya Reynolds is a community organizer and poet living in Detroit, Michigan. Her work centers joy, grief, and resistance through language. She’s honored to be part of a project that documents Black women’s truth in real time.

• Leslie A. James is a retired federal worker and grandmother of three. A lifelong voter and quiet resistor, she believes in passing down truth through both stories and silence.

Your Turn: Keep it to 2–4 sentences.