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Danielle Evans

Author

Bio

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Danielle Evans Books

A New Race of Men from Heaven book cover

A New Race of Men from Heaven

Chaitali Sen
The Goodness of St. Rocque book cover

The Goodness of St. Rocque

Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Office of Historical Corrections book cover

The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 book cover

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019

Yuka Igarashi
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary book cover

Notes from a Black Woman's Diary

Kathleen Collins
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self book cover

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Danielle Evans
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