From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Yolantha Harrison-Pace, a performing arts specialist, is from Texas and has lived in Danville, KY, for many years. For 30 years she has designed and facilitated academic programs in dance and the performing arts, most recently in the Danville/Boyle County area. She also conducts storytelling and poetry writing workshops, is the founder and facilitator of V.O.I.C.E. (Voices of Influence Creating Encouragement) and S.P.E.A.K.!!! (Stop, Please End Abuse to Kids!!!), and is the author of a book of poetry, Wing-Plucked Butterfly (Neshee Publication, 2004). In 2015, she published Angel's Book: A Book in Honor of Loved Ones with Alzheimer's Dimentia.

Harrison-Pace has published several other books. She has received a number of awards and honors, including the 2004 YOUnity Guild Humanitarian of the Year Award and the 2004 Urban Spectrum Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her published books include Where the Thunder Hides, Color Me Yolantha, Uncle Thaxter: a Suri Love Story, Here's to Haiti, Me First, and Angel's Book. 

For more see Crystal Sicard, "Kentucky artist channels her talent to raise money for those in need," Spectrum News 1, 8/23/2021 (online); "Art center welcomes latest artist-in-residence," The Advocate Messenger, 11/19/2021, p. A4; and many other newspaper articles and websites.