Melvin Grier was a staff photographer at the Cincinnati Post for thirty-three years. Grier was named 1999 Ohio Photographer of the Year by the Queen City Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, and was inducted into its Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was named the Taft Museum of Art Robert S. Duncanson Artist-in-Residence and inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Cincinnati Chapter Hall of Fame. Grier has also exhibited his photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, and Arts Consortium of Cincinnati. Grier, a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, lives in South Avondale with his wife Brenda.