About the Author
Educator, freelance writer, human rights advocate Emma McElvaney Talbott taught in Jefferson County Public Schools and as an adjunct professor at several universities, served as parenting editor for Family Digest Magazine and Family Digest Baby Magazine, and was a part of the inaugural class of Louisville Courier-Journal Forum Fellows. In Not Far from Freedom, a formerly enslaved great-grandmother in mid-1950s Kentucky shares stories of cross-generational survival, striving, determination, and forgiveness as her great-granddaughter garners knowledge, strength, and understanding to chart her future and find a new way to move forward.
