Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., is currently the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor & Coordinator of English at Dillard University. As folklorist, Saloy documents Black Creole Culture. As poet, her book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Second Line Home poems capture New Orleans speech and family stories and celebrate New Orleans and Creole culture the world loves.
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by 
Red Beans and Ricely Yours by 
Between Laughter and Tears: Black Mona Lisa Poems by