Savannah J. Frierson is a USA Today best-selling and award-winning author telling stories of beautifully imperfect women discovering they are worthy, desirable, and deserving of love just as they are. To date, she has published twenty-five short stories, novellas, and novels across several genres. In addition to writing, Savannah is also a freelance editor, a Gallup®-Certified Strengths Coach, and a speaker/workshop facilitator.
A Harvard University graduate, Savannah completed her first original work, Reconstructing Jada Channing, as her senior thesis, earning the 2005 Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for most outstanding thesis concerning African or African American literature. In 2007, her first novel, Being Plumville, earned several SORMAG Readers’ Choice Awards in 2007 and an Emma Award nomination for Debut Author of the Year at the 2008 Romance Slam Jam Conference. Being Plumville and Go with Your Heart were also designated as Library Journal Self-E Select titles in 2016. These titles, along with Manna Tree, are part of the nationwide Indie Author Project.
Savannah has been a featured author for Kindle Direct Publishing’s KDP University @Home (2021) and Charleston County Public Library’s Indie Author Week (2021). She has been the programming chair for the Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival (2021, 2022) and a former vice president of the Lowcountry Romance Writers of America (2019). Additionally, she has also spoken at several industry events, including the South Carolina Book Festival (2015), Charleston’s Black Ink African American Book Festival (2017, 2019), and Capital Bookfest (2010), and presented workshops for RT Booklovers Convention (2017), Romance Writers of America (2019, 2020), and Charleston’s MOJA Arts Festival (2017, 2019), as well as book clubs, radio shows, and classes about her work. In terms of print media, she and her work have appeared in RT Book Reviews (2016), Publishers Weekly (2018), Happy Ever After (2018), Book Riot (2019), Frolic Media (2019), and The Bookseller (2021).
As a freelance editor, she is part of the Tessera Editorial consortium and has worked with publishers such as Fortress Press, Macmillan, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster, and independent clients such as Courtney Milan, Tawna Fenkse, and Wendy Coakley-Thompson. Editorial projects include USA Today best-sellers such as Money Devils 1 (2020, Macmillan, copy editing) and The Duke Who Didn’t (2020, Courtney Milan, proofreading). As a coach/consultant, she has worked with people from all walks of life, including New York Times best-selling authors, teachers, students, therapists, and even Olympic medalists. She has also been recognized as one of the Top Female Business Coaches by Coach Foundation.
Savannah is represented by the wonderful Saritza Hernandez at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
