Tina McElroy Ansa

Tina McElroy Ansa was an American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, businesswoman and journalist whose work appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and The Atlanta Constitution, among other papers and magazines. Her novels include The Hand I Fan With, the third book in her Mulberry series, which mixes magical realism with a romance involving a ghost in a small Georgia town. Ugly Ways is a darkly humorous family drama about grief, death and the afterlife. Ansa died in 2024.