Linda Chavers

Linda Chavers is from Washington, DC. She writes essays on things that strike her fancy or nerves and is working on a memoir on the genealogy of memory. She lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Temple University and sometimes people like to hear what she has to say so she goes and speaks to them.

To Black Girls Everywhere

“There are letters to us about finding things and people, about how to lose other things and other people. There are books to us, prayers to us, for us.”