Phyllis Alesia Perry
Phyllis Alesia Perry is an African-American journalist and author, who lives in the Southern United States.
Phyllis Alesia Perry is the daughter of Harmon Griggs Perry, the first African-American reporter to be hired by the Atlanta Journal. She grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, and graduated with a degree in communications from the University of Alabama in 1982. Becoming a journalist, she was among a group of Alabama Journal reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for investigating Alabama's high infant mortality rate.
Perry's debut novel, Stigmata, follows the journey of a young woman, Lizzie, pursuing the story behind a handmade quilt she has inherited on the death of her grandmother. A Sunday in June is a prequel to Stigmata.