Dionne Ford is author of the memoir Go Back and Get It  (Bold Type Books, April, 2023) a 2024 finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and an NPR book of the day. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, LitHub, and Rumpus among other publications and her book reviews and journalism have appeared in The Boston Globe, New Jersey Monthly, and Ebony. She is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York. Her work has also been supported by grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Cabins at MarthaMoca and Yaddo.  She is co-editor of the anthology Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation and is editor of Lynchings in the North, an initiative of the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University. She has taught at the Hedgebrook Writers Conference, for Poets & Writers, Inc., StoryStudio Chicago, and in the creative writing departments at Drew University and Fordham University. In 2023, she was appointed to the New Jersey Reparations Council, the first commission of its kind in the state. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University and a BA from Fordham University.