Writings

Essays

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The Prell Sisters of Alabama (2020)  Midnight & Indigo

 

We Ready (2019)  The Florida Review

 

The Problem With Evolving (2018)  Nothing But the Truth, LLC

 

Living in a World of Rape (2015)  The Stir Journal

 

If I Call Your Name (2014)  De Standard, Brussels Belgium

 

Mad Hearts (2013)   Lexington Books

 

Robert Byrd: A Living History (2010)   The New York Times

 

Lilacs (2010)  Connotation Press

 

Mother (2010)  The New York Times (Motherlode)

 

Deferred Dreams (2009)   That MinorityThing.Com

 

The Future of Race Relations (2009)   That MinorityThing.Com

 

Outside of Dreams (2009)   University Press of Mississippi

 

Love Means Nothing (2007)   Tusculum Review

 

Soul-Mating (2007)   Ballantine Books

 

Come and Be Black for Me (2006)   GirlChild Press

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Revisions of Communal History in Ernest

Gaines’s A Long Day in November (1998)   Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

 

Come and Be Black for Me (1998)    W.W. Norton

 

Burying Gems (1998)   The Potomac Review

 

The Conspiracy of Grace (1994)    Henry Holt

 

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Fiction

 

Meteor (2015)    Green Mountain Review

 

Woman with Papa (2013)   Spitoon

 

Silent Screams (1999)   Callaloo

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Shopping for a Prom Dress (1996)   Kestrel Journal

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Quilting the Black-Eyed Peas by Nikki Giovanni (2004)    African American Review

 

Leaving Pipe Shop by Deborah McDowell (1999)   African American Review

 

Moses Unchained by Marilyn Moriarty (1998)    The Roanoke Times