Dr. Ramona L. Hyman is a writer, speaker and professor "whose words are powerful memories for us to walk in the 21 st century, " says Sonia Sanchez. Of her literary work, African American critic, Dr. Joyce Joyce says, "Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a EuroAmerican poetic vernacular. Dr. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong Black intellectual poetic voice." In 2021, Dr. Hyman was appointed by the Governor of the state of Alabama to serve as a Governor's appointee to the Alabama State Arts Council. Dr. Hyman is a graduate of Temple University (BA), Andrews University (MA), and earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Dr. Hyman served as a professor for over 40 years. She has a CMMI certification.

Hyman's work has been included in journals and anthologies such as the Ministry, African American Pulpit, Message, African American Review, Spectrum, Ministry, the Journal of Adventist Education, College Language Association Journal, Obsidian, and Callaloo. She has been anthologized in Amiri and Amina Baraka's An Anthology of African American Women Writers (Marrow Press) and Jonathan Thompson's The Enduring Legacy of Ellen G. White and Social Justice. (Pacific Press, 2017). She is the author of two collections of poetry, In the Sanctuary of a South and I Am Black America. She is the coeditor of African American Seventh-day Adventist Healers in a Multi-cultural Nation (Pacific Press) and the children’s book Grandma Annie’s Poetry. She is presently working on two collections: "Montgomery in My Mind" (essays), "Jesus in Alabama" (poetry).

Dr. Hyman's work has been cited in texts such as: Wardi, Anissa Janine Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Dr. Hyman has been the recipient of an Alabama Humanities Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts Grant and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers' grant. She has served as an adjudicator for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alabama Humanities Alliance. Dr. Hyman's speaking topic is "Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Success Lessons from the Boycott.”

Dr. William Ferris, former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Clinton administration, says "Hyman's skills as an actor and writer are rare."

Contact: ramona.hyman@yahoo.com.