Ottie Beatrice Graham Jefferson (December 11, 1901 – March 31, 1944)[1] was an American writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement.

[2] Graham was born in Virginia, United States, and raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of Rev.

[5] Graham's "To A Wild Rose" was awarded first prize in a student fiction contest, by the judges Arthur B. Spingarn, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and W. E. B.

[6][7] She starred in a production of her own one-act play The King's Carpenters (1921) at the Harlem YWCA in 1922.

[13] They lived in Steelton, Pennsylvania, and had a son, Michael Graham Jefferson, born in 1927.