Tina McElroy Ansa (November 18, 1949 – September 10, 2024) was an American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, businesswoman and journalist.
Ansa's fiction portrays a variety of Black women in the recent and modern American South, with a blend of the supernatural and traditional superstition.
Ansa and her husband were adapting Baby of the Family for the screen in a feature film starring Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Vanessa A. Williams, Todd Bridges, Pam Grier.
In March 2007, Ansa launched an independent publishing company, DownSouth Press, with a focus on African-American literature.
Ansa lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia where she wrote, edited and published through her DownSouth Press.