Dr. Ramona L. Hyman
is a  native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She serves as an Associate  Professor of
Humanities at  Loma Linda University. In addition, she is an essayist and poet. She earned
a B. A from Temple University and her MA from Andrews University; she earned her Ph.D
from the University of Alabama. Hyman has served as a speaker for the Alabama
Humanities Foundation and a poet in resident for the Alabama State Council on the Arts
and the Huntsville Arts Council. She has been the recipient of the National Endowment for
the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers grant. Hyman, moreover, has
served as an adjudicator for Faculty Research Awards for the National Endowment for the  
Humanities, Washington, D.C.

Hyman's literary work has been included in journals and anthologies such as Amiri and
Amini Baraka's An Anthology of African American Women Writers (Marrow Press), African
American Pulpit, Message, and African American Review. Hyman is a consulting editor for
Message. She is the author of the collection of poetry, In the Sanctuary of a South. Hyman’s
stories are designed for all audiences: academic institutions, religious and social
organizations. She inspires an interactive relationship between herself and her listeners.
Dr. William Ferris, former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, says
Hyman’s skills as an actor and writer are rare.”



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About  Dr. Hyman