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Episode 18: Featured Event with Dionne Ford
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers podcast, Cleyvis Natera moderates Dionne Ford's book release event for her memoir, Go Back & Get It, live in-store at Watchung Booksellers.
Dionne Ford is the author of Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. She is an NEA creative writing fellow and the co-editor of the anthology Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Literary Hub, New Jersey Monthly, the Rumpus, and Ebony and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She holds a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from New York University. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Cleyvis Natera the author of Neruda on the Park, a New York Times Editors’ Choice in 2022. She was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the United States at ten years old, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has won awards and fellowships from PEN America, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshops, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.
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