Dr. Julian Maha said his path to creating KultureCity began as he found himself coming to terms with his son’s autism diagnosis. “Sometimes, in order to find your true life’s path, you need to be lost,” Maha said. During his 2016 TEDTalk, Maha said he was inspired to create the nonprofit after experiences with his son taught […]

Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum in Montgomery, never planned to write a book of poems on Helen Keller. In 2016 she did just that, publishing “The Myth of Water.” The poetry collection, a culmination of a decade of Thompson’s work, paints pictures through the mind of Helen Keller. Thompson created the collection using a writing […]