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Closure

By Omotara James

Brandon Taylor: “The story can’t be so loyal to one character that it betrays another”

By Brandon Taylor and Adam Dalva

Administrator

By Sam Munson
A human figure leans beyond a curtain of vertical lines in a black-and-white illustration.

Untitled IX, 1982

By Victoria Chang

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica, the Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number, and elsewhere. Her short story "Control Negro" was featured in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest-edited by Roxane Gay, and was read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI's Selected Shorts series. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Tin House, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
http://jocelynjohnson.com/
Interview RaceUSA

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson: “As a Black Southern woman, I’m full of dread”

By Elaine H. Kim and Jocelyn Nicole Johnson October 18, 2021
The author of My Monticello on finding humanity in intersecting dystopias.
Lives ConflictRaceUSA

How to Explain to Your Son Why White Supremacists Are Marching on Your Town

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson November 6, 2017
Reckoning with racism and violence at home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Fiction Family & RelationshipsRace

Control Negro

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson July 29, 2017
I aimed to painstakingly mark the route of this black child, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.
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