Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly,
StoryQuarterly, Lunch Ticket and
The Feminist Wire, among other publications. She is a 2016 participant of the Callaloo Writer’s Workshop, a 2017 Tin House workshopee and a 2017
Sewanee Writer's Conference Stanley Elkin Scholar. Her collection
Heads of the Colored People will be published in 2018.
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