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Venita Blackburn

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

Dead in Long Beach, California (2024)

Collections

Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (2017)
How to Wrestle a Girl (2021)

Books containing stories by Venita Blackburn

Be Gay, Do Crime (2025)
edited by
Kristel Buckley and Molly Llewellyn

An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2024 (2024)
edited by
Erika T Wurth

Award nominations

	2025 PEN/Hemingway Award (finalist) : Dead in Long Beach, California
	2025 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction (finalist) : Dead in Long Beach, California
	2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (nominee) : Black Jesus and Other Superheroes

Venita Blackburn recommends

Gods of Want (2022)
K-Ming Chang
"In the genre of feminine madness, these stories are to be worshipped. They are fearless, hysterical, violent yet full of grace. Each sentence escalates toward devastating, poetic insight about our bodies, about cultural demands both treasured and feared, and about what makes being alive a terror and a joy."

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