Review attention: Alice Walker's books from The New Press have been reviewed in outlets such as The Guardian, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and she has been interviewed on programs such as Democracy Now!.

World-famous author: Walker is a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of poems, novels, short stories, and nonfiction. She is internationally known as one of the United States' most prominent and respected authors.

Online presence: Walker maintains a robust website where she posts poetry and blog entries; social media regularly spikes with quotations from and references to Walker, particularly in response to #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlMagic.

Anniversary: 2021 will mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For.