Q&A with Liwen Xu, author of "In the End"

Moments like these are threaded through my stories, and to me, they are the gold thread glinting in my fiction. In some ways, I’m always writing for my parents, towards my mother.



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On the left, a photo of KB Brookins -- a Black person with long two-colored locs -- sitting on the floor in jeans and a tshirt, laughing. On the right, Brookins's book cover -- a shirtless Black person with soft afro hair closes their eyes and birds tattooed on the person's chest fly off their body into the sky.

Q&A with KB Brookins, author of Pretty

"All the books that I’ve written so far are iterations of the same person learning more about what it means to be a Black trans person."


On the left, a photo of Ariana Benson -- a Black person dressed in a white dress and cape with an afro puff hairstyle, smiling and speaking with their hands. On the right, Benson's book cover -- several rows of glass-blown orchids hanging from an empty wood frame all on a black background.

Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral

"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."