Johnnie Bernhard, author of A Good Girl, is pictured with Dr. Kim Vaz-Deville, author of The Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition, presented at the 2017 Jambalaya Writer’s Conference in Houma, Louisiana on March 4, 2017.  Both authors were presenters at the 2016 Words and Music Literary Feast of New Orleans.