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Meet Our Contributors | African Writing Online Folio

Click here to view the African Writing Online Folio table of contents. Anna Almore is a relative, learner, and doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. She received her bachelor’s in English with certificates in African American and American studies at Princeton University. Her work has been […]

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Click here to view the African Writing Online Folio table of contents. Anna Almore is a relative, learner, and doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. She received her bachelor’s in English with certificates in African American and American studies at Princeton University. Her work has been

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On the Trickle-Down Effects of Trauma: An Interview with Katya Apekina

Katya Apekina made her debut in 2018 with her stunning novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish—in which teenaged sisters Edie and Mae are sent to New York to live with their estranged father after their mother’s suicide attempt. With her follow-up, Apekina once again probes complicated family dynamics, this time using pregnancy

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Katya Apekina made her debut in 2018 with her stunning novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish—in which teenaged sisters Edie and Mae are sent to New York to live with their estranged father after their mother’s suicide attempt. With her follow-up, Apekina once again probes complicated family dynamics, this time using pregnancy

Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:2 | Spring 2024

Heran Abate is an Emmy-winning writer and producer from Addis Ababa. Her practice is deeply rooted in oral histories and an archive that she has collaboratively built over a decade of research. Her writing appears in Kweli Journal, Africa Is a Country, and a number of print anthologies in Africa and Europe. She holds an

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Heran Abate is an Emmy-winning writer and producer from Addis Ababa. Her practice is deeply rooted in oral histories and an archive that she has collaboratively built over a decade of research. Her writing appears in Kweli Journal, Africa Is a Country, and a number of print anthologies in Africa and Europe. She holds an

THE LADIES OF THE CITY

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Barely a month into seventh grade and already Ruby had three crushes: a celebrity crush on Cary Elwes, the most beautiful man in the world; a romantic crush on Osama, a lanky, graceful Syrian boy at her masjid who could spin a basketball on one finger; and a platonic

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Barely a month into seventh grade and already Ruby had three crushes: a celebrity crush on Cary Elwes, the most beautiful man in the world; a romantic crush on Osama, a lanky, graceful Syrian boy at her masjid who could spin a basketball on one finger; and a platonic

WHAT WOULD I DO FOR YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR ME?

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Why Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended Emma Binder’s “What Would I Do For You, What Would Yo Do For Me?” for MQR‘s Winter 2024 issue. You can purchase the issue here. As a reader, you dream of encountering fiction as heart-driven and nuanced

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Why Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended Emma Binder’s “What Would I Do For You, What Would Yo Do For Me?” for MQR‘s Winter 2024 issue. You can purchase the issue here. As a reader, you dream of encountering fiction as heart-driven and nuanced

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