C. Riley Snorton: Interview
“Survival is a relational praxis”C. Riley Snorton interviewed by Noura mutima Brock-Jaber C. Riley Snorton is a professor of English […]
Interviews
Interviews with Writers of the African Diaspora
Cheryl Clarke: Interview
“Screaming to Be Out”Cheryl Clarke interviewed by Marci Blackman Cheryl Clarke is one of the organizers since 2013 of the
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Interview
“Presence to possibility”Alexis Pauline Gumbs interviewed by Tara M. Holman Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Black feminist writer, scholar,
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Francesca Ekwuyasi: Interview
by Nicole Dennis-Benn Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread, is an evocative, lyrical tale of three Nigerian women—a
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Interview
Release date: July 2023Promise by Rachel Eliza GriffithsTwo Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their
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Bridgett Davis: By the Numbers
This interview was conducted by Eisa Nefetari Ulen for Mosaic, and will be included in an upcoming lesson plan on
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Mitchell S. Jackson: Interview
The average dude is myopic. He sees the hustler on the block or in cruising the boulevard or in the club or in the park, all the time sporting new shiny things, and he becomes covetous. Or else he grows up with hustlers and has that way of life normalized. I guess I had it both ways. -Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math
Elders, Interviews
Cheryl Boyce Taylor: Interview
A Mother’s Duty: An Interview with Caribbean Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor by Mercy Tullis-Bukhari Towards the end of a New York
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Kem Joy Ukwu: Interview
I didn’t envision my stories together as a collection until after I wrote a number of them. I realized that most of my individual stories would fit together as a collection by noticing that my stories had strong emotional components that united them. After this realization, I started submitting my manuscript into contests. I also wrote e-mail query letters to agents and presses. There were promising parts of the process but I hadn’t yet reached my goal of Locked Gray / Linked Blue becoming a published book. The selection of my manuscript as a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize was one of the wonderful and hopeful parts of this process.
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Shauna Morgan: Interview
Audre Lorde said, “speak the truth as I see it” whether it is pretty or not, painful or not. I’ve been told that I can write dagger poems—words that can be hurtful. So sometimes I am a bit apprehensive about the truth being revealed and how it’s coming through. But at every moment I write it’s also about overcoming the fear to write those things that speak the truth.