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Venita Blackburn

Venita Blackburn

Venita Blackburn’s writing has appeared in thenewyorker.com, Harper’s, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, the Paris Review, and other publications. The winner of the Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction for her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017, she is the founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write (livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative-writing workshops for communities of color. Blackburn’s second collection of stories, How to Wrestle a Girl, was published in the fall of 2021. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.