A’Ja Lyons is a nature writer born and raised in Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, Texas. She was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. She received a writing residency fellowship at the Writers Colony of Dairy Hollow. A’Ja was the first intern at Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising History Center in a partnership with the National Humanities Center.
Her writing utilizes environmental imagination to communicate historical, physical, and emotional context. She enjoys volunteering at libraries, animal shelters, and environmental clean-ups.
Writer, historian, teacher and lifelong learner
