Malaika Adero has held editorial positions in the publishing industry for more than thirty years, mainly at Simon & Schuster and Amistad Press, working on books by Walter Mosley, Prince, T. D. Jakes, Gordon Parks, Zane, and Miles Davis. She is the author of A Black Woman Did That: 42 Boundary-Breaking, Bar-Raising, World-Changing Women, and Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African-American Migration; and coauthor of The Mother of Black Hollywood with Jenifer Lewis and Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Now an independent book developer and literary agent at her company, Adero's Literary Tribe, she works with individuals and corporations as an editor and writer. She is based in New York City and Atlanta.