Nafissa Thompson-Spires
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Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeny’s “The Organist,” The Paris Review Daily, Dissent, Buzzfeed Books, The White Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and other publications. Her short story “Heads of the Colored People…” won StoryQuarterly’s 2016 Fiction Prize, judged by Mat Johnson. Her work has received support from Callaloo, Tin House, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. HEADS OF THE COLORED PEOPLE was long listed for the National Book Award and is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.
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