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Dionne Irving

Dionne Irving is originally from Toronto, Ontario. Her work has appeared in Story, Boulevard, Lit Hub, Missouri Review, and New Delta Review, among other journals and magazines. Her first novel Quint came out in the fall of 2021. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame, and lives in Indiana with her husband and son. The Islands is her latest book.

Where Cocktail Hour Never Ends: On Jamaica, Tourism, and the Remnants of Empire

Dionne Irving on Being a Foreigner in Her Ancestral Home

November 1, 2022 By Dionne Irving

Living With Racial Battle Fatigue

Why Fighting Microagressions can Feel Like Treading Water

July 22, 2016 By Dionne Irving

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