Caroline Randall Williams

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Soul Food Love (2016) and the Phyllis Wheatley Award for The Diary of B.B. Bright.
Serves as the Writer-In-Residence for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University since 2019.
Co-Founder of Mangrove since 2025.
Author of the poetry collection Lucy Negro, Redux (2015), which was adapted into a ballet by the Nashville Ballet.
Co-author of the cookbook Soul Food Love (2015) with her mother, Alice Randall.
Named by Southern Living as "One of the 50 People changing the South" in 2015.
Holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and a BA from Harvard University.

Biography

Caroline Randall Williams is an American author, poet, and educator. She is the co-author of the Phyllis Wheatley Award-winning young adult novel The Diary of B.B.

Bright and the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love, co-written with her mother, Alice Randall. Her debut collection of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux, published in 2015, was adapted into a ballet by the Nashville Ballet.