Addie E Citchens
Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American's "Best of the South," Midnight & Indigo's speculative fiction anthology, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been heard on The Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. She was the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Straus and Giroux Writer's Fellowship, and her short story "That Girl" won the O. Henry Prize. Dominion is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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The Ladies Hall (2026)
Vanessa Miller
"THE LADIES HALL, the fictionalized account of Mary Church Terrell, Ida Gibbs Hunt, and Anna Julia Cooper's time at Oberlin, flung me, headlong, into reminiscences of my girlhood: crisp Easter clothes, the careful memorization of a monologue, a full-pewed church of elders, expectant that you will be great . . . and the trembly bravery of thinking you might be. Miller, in efficient, tender, and resonant manner, conjures how these women, just years removed from slavery, managed not only to graduate from this rigorous program but excel in the face of adversity, and this work made me feel immensely proud."
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