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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.

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	Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing 4.05 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss (Introduction), Shannon Lanier (Contributor), A.B. Westrick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Mate 101 and Other Essays on Love and Sex by Jennifer Niesslein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Bir, Jean Kim 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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