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| Crystal Bradshaw, aspiring author & HBW staffer |
Editor's Note: One of HBW's goals is to promote research and creative work by new generations of scholars and writers. To that end, the HBW Blog will begin featuring short profiles of young creative writers and scholars for a feature we've named the Project on the Future of Black Writing. First up: KU sophomore Crystal Bradshaw, a creative writer and aspiring publisher who also heads up HBW Communications.
Crystal Bradshaw knew from the time she was in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer.
Her sixth-grade teacher would read books aloud to Crystal's class, and Crystal never forgot the power of that.
"It just really amazed me because the way she'd read the stories just made me think, what if one day I wrote a book, and their teacher read the story to their students?" Crystal said.
A few years later, when she went looking for a story to tell, Crystal found one close to home: a few generations back on her family tree.
