Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (A Picture Book)

This picture-book biography follows Myra Viola Wilds from rural Kentucky to the city, where she learns to read and write and becomes a dressmaker. She creates hand-stitched gowns but loses her sight through her work. Drawing on remembered colors and scenes, she begins writing poetry and eventually collects poems in Thoughts of Idle Hours, published in 1915. The book also provides context on the Great Migration and Jim Crow segregation.