Dionne Ford is author of the forthcoming memoir Go Back and Get It (Bold Type Books 2023) and co-editor of the anthology Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation (Rutgers University). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, 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 holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and a BA from Fordham University where she is an adjunct professor. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughters.