Tanya Batson-Savage is a writer, filmmaker, publisher, and creative consultant. She is publisher and editor in chief of the award-winning independent publishing house Blue Banyan Books (and its imprint Blouse & Skirt Books) and co-founder of Have a Bawl Productions. A Fellow of the Calabash International Literary Festival and Cropper Residential writing workshops, she earned JAFTA/Porter Screenwriting and Rotterdam Producer Lab Fellowships. She has produced two short films – Agwe and A Shade of Indigo. Her non-fiction has been widely anthologized and she’s authored the critically acclaimed play Woman Tongue and two works for children: Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories and My Name is Mary.