Tracy Chiles McGhee

Author. Cultural Curator. Literary and Communications Consultant.

Tracy Chiles McGhee is an award-winning author, cultural curator, and independent scholar. She is the author of the historical novel, Melting the Blues, winner of six awards including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Fiction and the Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal.

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Tracy Chiles McGhee Bio

Tracy Chiles McGhee is an award-winning author, cultural curator, and independent scholar. She is the author of the historical novel, Melting the Blues, winner of six awards including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Fiction and the Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal. McGhee is a 2025 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellow and a 2025 HumanitiesDC Community Culture & Heritage Grant Award Recipient. She was a 2024 HumanitiesDC Independent Practitioner Fellow and holds the distinction of being named the Inaugural HumanitiesDC Literature Fellow. McGhee is also the visionary behind Salon Redux: In the Spirit of Georgia Douglas Johnson, a DC citywide initiative that reimagines the historic S Street Salon to build community for today's times. A graduate of Georgetown University and Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, McGhee’s mission is to highlight and preserve “herstory” as well as to spark joy and creativity - multiple stories at a time.

Tracy Chiles McGhee