Dionne Ford

2016 Alumna

Cottage: Cedar

Bio: Dionne Ford is author of the memoir Go Back and Get It, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award, and co-editor of the anthology Slavery’s Descendants. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Virginia Quarterly Review, LitHub, New Jersey Monthly, Rumpus and Ebony among other publications and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2018, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. She is an adjunct professor of creative writing at Drew and Fordham Universities and she lives in New Jersey with her daughters.