Event
A READING BY NICOLE DENNIS-BENN
Creative Writing Program Event
NICOLE DENNIS-BENN's highly anticipated debut novel, Here Comes the Sun, debuted from W. W. Norton/Liveright in July 2016. Her writing has been awarded a Richard and Julie Logsdon Fiction Prize, and two of her stories have been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in Fiction. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell Colony, Lambda, Sewanee Writers Conference, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, Hurston/Wright, and Kimbilio. Her work has appeared in Elle Magazine, Electric Literature, Red Rock Review, Kweli Literary Journal, Mosaic, Ebony.com, and the Feminist Wire. She's a graduate of Cornell University and has a MPH from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing. Nicole Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Visit her website at www.nicoledennisbenn.com and follow her on twitter at @ndennis_benn.