Soraya Palmer, who identifies as Trinidadian/Jamaican-American, published The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts in March 2023 (Catapult Books). [Excuse our delay in giving it the attention it deserves! We made a brief mention in our previous post, Books-about-hauntings-by-black-women-writers.] Daphne Palasi Andreades (author of Brown Girls) describes it: “Playful and deft, Palmer’s debut…
The winner of the first-ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is Fatimah Asghar for their debut novel “When We Were Sisters.” The announcement was made at Parnassus Books in Nashville,