Lanier Isom

Lanier Isom is a journalist and co-author of the award-winning memoirGrace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond. The film,Lilly, based on her book, starring Patricia Clarkson, is in post-production. Her work has been inAl Jazeera,The Los Angeles Times,The Lily,The Bitter Southerner,ScalawagandSalvation South. A frequent contributor toal.com, she is an Alabama Library Association Nonfiction Award recipient and a 2023 Alabama State Council of the Arts fellow.She has completed a memoir about growing up in the South during the seventies before #metoo and is currently working on a project about environmental racism in a small Alabama town.A blue dot in a red state, she lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband and three dogs, and has a college age daughter and grown son. Shes a Peleton addict, dog lover and psychic junkie. For more from Lanier, visitwww.lanierisom.comand her Instagram @lanierisom.