Improve Your Writing Craft

Tiphanie Yanique is a Caribbean-American fiction writer, poet, and essayist. Her novel and short story collection, Monster in the Middle, explores intimacy through a generational, historical, and societal lens. It provides a rare look into colonialism in America, as well as the experience of being Black in America and the Caribbean over the past 50 years. It was a finalist for the Lambda Award for Bisexual Fiction and the Atlanta Writers Club's Townsend Prize for the Best Book in Georgia in 2023, selected as the Best American Short Stories of 2021, and published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Harvard Review and the Yale Review.

Yanique along with more than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy—reflect on their experience and expertise in the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit in the anthology, How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill.

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Books will be available for purchase and signing by The Book Cellar.

Host or Publisher Gwinnett County Public Library