Ersula Knox Odom is an author, essayist, workshop leader, FHC Mary McLeod Bethune Road Scholar, motivational speaker and prize winning life lyricist.
         She shares the fond and treasured recollections of a country girl whose life was shaped and enriched by the wit, wisdom and love of her grandmother.  At Sula's Feet is a journey down the dirt road where many of her life lessons were learned in a time that was simple and significant.
         As a motivational speaker, Ms Odom has the uncommon ability to relate to multi-generational and multi-cultural audiences by sharing experiences from such areas as rural living, college life, fortune 500 corporate management, spirituality, being a mother, entrepreneurship, sales, and genealogy to publishing her first book.
        She is a graduate of Effingham County High School, Springfield Ga  and Eckerd College, St Petersburg FL. Ersula is a business owner, former board member of the Association of Personal Historians, former manager with GTE Data Serivices, the Smart/Pelote family historian, member of  St John Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, FL Writers Assoc,  Afro-American Historical and Genealogy Society, and is an ATM –Toastmaster.