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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Breaks the Mold with Her Debut Novel

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Breaks the Mold with Her Debut Novel By Lauren LeBlanc | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers published her first poetry collection, The Gospel of Barbecue, in 2000. She also published her first short story, “Sister Lilith,” that year. In the two decades plus that followed, the 53-year-old has established herself as a renowned poet, releasing four collections and earning a National Book Award longlist nomination in 2020. Born in Kokomo, Ind., Jeffers nonetheless considers herself a native Southerner. She was raised throughout the South and stayed there for her undergraduate and graduate education, receiving a BA from Talladega College in Talladega, Ala., and an MFA from the University of Alabama. Since 2002, she has taught at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she currently lives. In 2018, she was awarded the Harper Lee Award for Literary Distinction for an Alabama writer.

Orion Magazine | Writers & Artists on the Influence of Barry Lopez

  BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now. We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,

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