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Title
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ROCHELLE SPENCER
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Description
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Rochelle is author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Routledge 2019) and The Rat People (The Fantasist 2017), and co-editor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin 2014). A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears in The Crab Creek Review, The Believer, TriQuarterly, Callaloo, the African American Review, Solstice, Poets and Writers, Lithub, The Jamaican Observer, The Carbon Culture Review, The East Bay Review, Eleven Eleven, Ms., Mosaic, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Hip Hop, The Millions, Graveyard Shift Sisters, Terrain, and Art Practical. Rochelle is an alum of the Clarion West Workshop taught by K. Tempest Bradford and Nisi Shawl and a National Black Writers Conference workshop taught by Victor LaValle, and her curatorial work includes the NEA-funded Let’s Play exhibition and the Digital Literature Garden. Co-founder of AWAKE Literary Management and a founding member of the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop, Rochelle is a former board member of the Hurston Wright Foundation, a former Vermont Studio Center fellow, and a current member of the National Book Critics Circle and The Clearing, the collective founded by Serena Simpson. Writers interested in representation or collaboration can connect at writecreateimagine@gmail.com.
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Date Accepted
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2022
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Track
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Digital Publishing
Julian C. Chambliss