A very special issue of all African American women writers guest edited by writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers,PMS 8 features such figures as Elizabeth Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Tayari Jones, Allison Joseph, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, and an interview by Remica L. Bingham with Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey. Each issue of PMS includes a memoir written by a woman who is not necessarily a writer but who has experienced something of historic import; PMS 8 features the memoir “From the Old Slave Shack” by the guest editor’s mother, Trellie James Jeffers, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities at Talledega College.
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A very special issue of all African American women writers guest edited by writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers,PMS 8 features such figures as Elizabeth Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Tayari Jones, Allison Joseph, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, and an interview by Remica L. Bingham with Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey. Each issue of PMS includes a memoir written by a woman who is not necessarily a writer but who has experienced something of historic import; PMS 8 features the memoir “From the Old Slave Shack” by the guest editor’s mother, Trellie James Jeffers, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities at Talledega College.
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