A’Ja Lyons is a nature writer born and raised in Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. A’Ja was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. She received a writing residency fellowship at the Writers Colony of Dairy Hollow. A’Ja currently interns at Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising History Center in a partnership with the National Humanities Center.
A’Ja’s writing utilizes environmental imagination to communicate historical, physical, and emotional context. She is the proud mother to an animal-loving child.
Writer, historian, teacher and lifelong learner
