Camille Acker

Training School for Negro Girls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As unapologetic and resilient as the DC neighborhoods they live in, these women challenge monolithic assumptions of black identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Feminist Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9781936932375
• ISBN-10: 1936932377
• Artikelnr.: 50694958

Autorenporträt

Camille Acker grew up in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in English from Howard University and an MFA in creative writing from New Mexico State University. Her writing has received support from the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, Callaloo Writers' Workshop, Voices of Our Nations Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, among others. She was a fiction coeditor for Dismantle: An Anthology from the VONA/Voices Workshop (Thread Makes Blanket Press 2014). In 2015, she helped cofound the Spinsters Union, a digital content site by and for women. She has worked for social justice non-profits and taught in a variety of educational spaces including Chicago Writers Studio and University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Hazlitt, Splinter, VICE, DAME Magazine, Fandor, and NewCity, among others. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fiction for the creative writing program at New Mexico State University.