Dara Beevas

Dara Beevas is a writer and publisher based in Minneapolis. She received her Master’s Degree in publishing and is, with Amy Quale, the co-founder of Wise Ink Creative Publishing, a hybrid publisher committed to changing the world through offering platforms to marginalized voices. Dara was a 2009 Givens Foundation for African American Literature Emerging Writers Fellow. She was also a 2017-2019 Bush Foundation Fellow. She’s the author of The Indie Author Revolution, Social Media Secrets for Authors, and Buzz: The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing. Her next project is a children’s picture book series profiling black queens throughout history. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Dara lives with her daughter Genesis, and her husband Tomme, who is the owner of local restaurant Pimento Jamaican Kitchen.