Former writer for The Washington Times, The Washington Post, People, Gospel Today, United Methodist Connection, and several other publications.
Recipient of Congressional and Governor’s Citations from Maryland, as well as numerous citations from the Charles County, MD House and Senate Delegation, and Charles County Commissioners.
Medley’s novels, titled God in Wingtip Shoes and Jubi Stone: Saved by the Vine, were traditionally published.
Her novella, The Prison Plumb Line, was adapted for the stage (several versions), and optioned. The Prison Plumb Line, a Lyrical Drama! was performed in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and behind bars. Its Mission Film version is streaming on Tubi and YouTube.
Founder of the Life Journeys Writers Club, Inc./DBA is Life Journeys Writers Guild (2007), a charitable nonprofit organization, which has been partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Maryland Humanities, The Charles County Arts Alliance, and the Maryland State Arts Council.
Established and involved in several critically acclaimed writers’ programs and showcases such as Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt free Library’s Writers Live Series (Central Branch), Maryland Humanities One Maryland One Book, The Smithsonian Institution’s Museums on Main Street, and literary prison programs, conducting writing workshops.
Creator of Literary Therapy? and a New York Writers Lab screenplay finalist and quarterfinalist in the Big Apple Film Festival.
Medley, via Medley Management and Prose, Inc., is also a ghostwriter, editor and writer’s coach, moving writers to authorship—professionally with skill and integrity.
Medley is most happy to have received recognition from President Obama’s 2012 White House, the MLK Drum Major for Service Award.
Her latest projects are: The Number Hole, a screenplay loosely based on Medley’s formative years in Harlem, riding shotgun with her dad in his taxi; Two Old White Ladies in Africa and American Black Life Revelations, a Collection of Novel-lattes & Essays; and The Color of the Band, a historical memoir, chronicling 94-year-old Walter D. Medley, Jr.’s (no relation) untold story serving in the U.S. All-Negro Army Bands in America’s segregated military (Published July 2023). Goodreads called it, “A stellar and deeply impactful memoir.”