A Note About the Author

Venita Blackburn is the author of the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at California State University, Fresno, and is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. You can sign up for email updates here.