Kendra talks to Morgan Jerkins about her latest book, Wandering in Strange Lands, which is out now from Harper.
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Henry Holt, 2020
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Author Bio
Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Her debut essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Harper Perennial 2018), was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Her other work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and ELLE, among many others.
She’s based in Harlem.
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Music by Isaac Greene