I give deep thanks to Christina Bevilacqua who planned and hosted my visit to The Providence Athenaeum on Friday evening (3/11). What a treat it was for me to present Trace: Memory, History, Race, & the American Landscape at the Athenaeum's Salon. The Salon began in...
Yesterday I attended a truly wonderful and thought-provoking book launch and panel at UMass re: Manisha Sinha's new THE SLAVE'S CAUSE: A HISTORY OF ABOLITION. Her encyclopedic volume presents the African American role in defining and shaping the abolition movement(s) in this land from the...
Sixty-six agents declined to represent Trace. Several of them had expressed initial interest based on the query letter. But all said no, some of them taking the time to explain that they would have difficulty placing my work with a mainstream publisher. The fear was...
This is a website of traces and tracing, of finding voice. Welcome. Edges and hybridity shape my identity as an African American woman of mixed ancestry. Tracing memory threads my work and life: unearthing what is buried, re-membering—piecing together—what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. For me this...