Faith S. Holsaert is an activist, poet, and author. She began her life as an activist during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She has since remained active in the community and has published two collections of poetry and coedited a collection of stories of women in the SNCC. She and her partner, Vicki Smith, reside in Durham, North Carolina, and have eleven grandchildren.