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Jamila Minnicks

Jamila Minnicks
Jamila Minnicks is the author of Moonrise Over New Jessup, the 2021 winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her work is also published in CRAFT Literary Magazine, The Write Launch, and The Silent World in Her Vase. Her piece "Politics of Distraction" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Howard University School of Law, and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Writing Fiction Is a Way to Ensure My Ancestors’ Stories Are Remembered

Jamila Minnicks on Finding Inspirations in Her Family’s Triumphs—Not Only Their Traumas
January 23, 2023  By Jamila Minnicks
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