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Two Black women are taking top positions at Simon & Schuster and Knopf. They talk to Rebecca Carroll about language, action, the power of books and the pace of change. Dickey has been chief executive of Seattle Arts & Lectures since 2013. She’s also served in that role for a range of nonprofits including the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Cincinnati, New Futures in Burien, Wash., and Miriam’s Kitchen in Washington, D.C. In 2019, she was a judge for the National Book Award for fiction. Dickey earned her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service and a master’s in Latin American studies from Georgetown University. In 2017 she was a fellow with the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program. Her first book, “Mud Blooms,” won a MURA Award and was a semifinalist for the National Poetry Series. It also received the 2019 Silver Nautilus Award, given to “books that make a better world.”

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