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Go Back and Get It is a finalist for The Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Memoir!

Go Back and Get It is recommended by a listener on WNYC’s “All of It with Allison Stewart.”

Black History Month author talk and fundraiser is featured in the Montclair Local.

Go Back and Get It is one of the 20 most popular books in the Africana Studies Collection at San Diego State University.

Go Back and Get It is included in Dr. Mardy Grothe’s compilation of The Best Opening Lines of 2023 featured on Smerconish.com.

Go Back and Get It is on Chicago Review of Books’ “Best Books We’ve Read in 2023 So Far” list.

Sierra McCleary-Harris interviewed me for Fordham Magazine.

I was interviewed for the new series “Ask a Sober Oldster,” a collaboration between Oldster Magazine and The Small Bow.

Chicago Review of Books includes Go Back and Get It in its list for Mental Health Awareness Month.

Go Back and Get It is featured in The New Yorker.

Jessica Nordell interviewed me for her newsletter Who We Are To Each Other.

Madeleine Signore interviewed me for Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center’s newspaper, The Observer.

Andrew Limbong interviewed me on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Chicago Review of Books says “Dionne Ford’s debut is one we should all be reading.”

Go Back and Get It is featured in the April 2023 issue of New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

Go Back and Get It is featured in Montclair Local.

BookPage calls Go Back and Get It a striking work, “as deeply empathetic as it is introspective.”

Robert Scheer interviews me for the KCRW podcast Scheer Intelligence.

Go Back and Get It is featured in the April issue of New Jersey Monthly Magazine

Go Back and Get It is one of “5 Books We’re Reading This Month” at Essence Magazine!

Zibby Magazine includes Go Back and Get It in author Diane Marie Brown’s roundup of Black History Month reads.

Go Back and Get It is a Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023 in Karla Strand’s list for Ms. Magazine!

Kirkus Review calls Go Back and Get It a “cathartic reading experience.”

Go Back and Get It is in stellar company in Maud Newton’s Year-In-Reading List for The Millions!

Go Back and Get It is a most anticipated book of 2023 at Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philly!

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For Black History month, I had a chance to speak with the Montclair Public Library podcast about the Slavery's Descendants anthology. (The interview starts 15 minutes, 20 seconds in.)Thanks to H-Net and H-Slavery for the in-depth interview with Jill Strauss and me about Slavery's Descendants anthology.Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation was mentioned in this Washington Post article about the richest slave traders in U.S. history.Thanks to my alma mater for spreading the word about the Slavery's Descendants anthology in Fordham University Magazine.The anthology, Slavery's Descendants received a Fall 2018 Furthermore Grant from the J.M. Kaplan Fund.I received a 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts along with 35 other writers.Thanks to a research grant, I get to use the Special Collections at Louisiana State University. Go Tigers!An excerpt from Finding Josephine won me a Sustainable Arts Foundation award for fall 2016I’m interviewed on Canadian Broadcast Company radio show, Day 6 by Brent Bambury on “Why the Confederate Flag Flies in Brazil.”I’m interviewed in The New York Times front-page story about Confederate History in Sao Paulo, Brazil.