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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.

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