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Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel, The River Where Blood is Born and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him, an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Her fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works are widely published and produced in Adi Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Aunt Chloe, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, New Daughters of Africa, Obsidian, Another Chicago Magazine, storySouth, Lifeline Theatre, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and others. Professional recognition includes a Plentitudes Journal Prize, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts, a National Endowment ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 3,293 ratings · 958 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes 3.65 avg rating — 1,881 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Zelda Knight (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 1,057 ratings — published 2022 — 8 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
	The River Where Blood Is Born 4.26 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1997 — 7 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
	Hot Johnny 3.86 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2001 — 6 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
	Both Sides: Stories From the Border by Gabino Iglesias (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Bowles (Goodreads Author), Michelle Garza 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils (Savvy Summers Mysteries, #2) 3.81 avg rating — 48 ratings — 3 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
	Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor), Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Editor) 4.69 avg rating — 26 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
	Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories by Michael W. Phillips Jr. (Editor), Cynthia Pelayo (Goodreads Author), Sahar Mustafah (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 22 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
	Sea Island Summer 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Happy New Year in Tumtum (More Holiday Adventures of the Lollipop Dragon: Book only) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Savvy Summers (2 books)
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“There are infinite beginnings.”
― Sandra Jackson-Opoku, The River Where Blood Is Born

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“I’d just gotten that last salary advance from you, but instead of putting it on our bills, I saw Sephora was having a sale…”
― Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes

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