Kendra talks to Cinelle Barnes, the editor of A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-one Writers of Color on the New South, which is out now from Hub City Press.
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Hub City Press, 2020
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Books Mentioned
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Jesmyn Ward
Karen Good Marable
Crystal Wilkinson
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
The Bitter Southerner
Scalawag
Author Bio
Cinelle Barnes is a memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR (Little A, 2018) and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM (Little A, 2019), and the editor A MEASURE OF BELONGING: 21 WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH (Hub City Press, 2020). She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College. Her writing has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed Reader, Catapult, Literary Hub, Hyphen, and CNN Philippines, among others. Her work has received fellowships and grants from VONA, Kundiman, the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund, the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant, and Capita. Her debut memoir was listed as a Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 by Bustle and nominated for the 2018 Reading Women Nonfiction Award. Barnes was a Focus Fellowship artist-in-residence at AIR Serenbe in 2020 and the 2018-19 writer-in-residence at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, where she and her family live.
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