Dionne Ford is author of the memoir Go Back and Get It (Bold Type Books, April, 2023) which was a 2024 finalist for the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Award and co-editor of the anthology Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, LitHub, The Boston Globe, New Jersey Monthly, Rumpus and Ebony among other publications and won awards from the the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York.  

Grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge foundation and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook and The Cabins at MarthaMOCA have also supported her work.  

She has taught at the Hedgebrook Conference, for Poets & Writers, Inc., and in the creative writing departments at Drew University and Fordham University.  In 2023, she was appointed to the New Jersey Reparations Council and is editor of Lynchings in the North, an initiative of the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University.