Lanier Isom

Lanier Isom is a journalist and co-author of the award-winning memoir, Grace and Grit, about fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter. The film, Lilly, based on her book, starring Patricia Clarkson, premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2023. Her work has been in Al Jazeera, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Lily, The Bitter Southerner, Scalawag and Salvation South. A frequent contributor to al.com, she is an Alabama Library Association Nonfiction Award recipient and a 2023 Alabama State Council of the Arts fellow. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband and three dogs, and has a college-aged daughter and grown son. For more from Lanier, visit www.lanierisom.com and her Instagram @lanierisom.