Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator, performer, and a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. She hosts the Viola Davis-produced Discovery+ series Hungry for Answers and co-authored the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love. Her debut poetry collection, Lucy Negro, Redux, became a Nashville Ballet production scored by Rhiannon Giddens and filmed for PBS's Great Performances, in which she performs. Named among Southern Living's "50 People Changing the South" and The Root's 100 most influential African Americans of 2020, she has been published in many outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.