Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, is forthcoming from Harper in July 2021; in addition, she’s the author of five books of poetry, most recently, The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan, 2020), based upon fifteen years of research on the life and times of Phillis Wheatley (Peters), a formerly enslaved person who was the first African American woman to publish a book. Jeffers’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Norton 2013), Callaloo, Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Scribner 2016), The Kenyon Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Aspen Summer Words Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation through the Library of Congress, and she has been honored with two lifetime achievement notations, the Harper Lee Award for Literary Distinction, and induction into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. Jeffers is Critic-at-Large for The Kenyon Review and Professor of English at University of Oklahoma.
Awards: NBCC (2021), Harper Lee (2018) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
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The Gospel of Barbecue (poems) (2000)
Outlandish Blues (poems) (2003)
Red Clay Suite (poems) (2007)
The Glory Gets (poems) (2015)
The Age of Phillis (poems) (2020)
Outlandish Blues (poems) (2003)
Red Clay Suite (poems) (2007)
The Glory Gets (poems) (2015)
The Age of Phillis (poems) (2020)
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Books containing stories by Honorée Fannone Jeffers

Dark Matter (2000)
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
edited by
Sheree Renée Thomas
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