LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”-Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”- The New York Times Book Review

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.

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If she’s isn’t in Memphis, she’s in Italy. Her poems have appeared in Collective Unrest, Jet Fuel Review, Minerva Rising, Women’s Arts Quarterly, Transitions and Apogee Journal, among others.

Third World Press published her first collection of poetry entitled More than Dancing in 2008.Ī cross-genre artist, the author was Northwestern University’s first MFA graduate in both poetry and prose and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, as well as Best of the Net. Stringfellow’s debut novel Memphis (Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House) is a multi-generational bildungsroman based on the author’s rich Civil Rights history.Ī recent winner of the Book Pipeline Fiction Contest, Memphis was recognized for its clear path to film or TV series adaptation and is due out in 2022. Her poems have appeared in Collective Unrest, Jet Fuel Review, Former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara M. A cross-genre artist, the author was Northwestern University’s first MFA graduate in both poetry and prose and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, as well as Best of the Net.

Third World Press published her first collection of poetry entitled More than Dancing in 2008. A recent winner of the Book Pipeline Fiction Contest, Memphis was recognized for its clear path to film or TV series adaptation and is due out in 2022. Stringfellow’s debut novel Memphis (Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House) is a multi-generational bildungsroman based on the author’s rich Civil Rights history. Former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara M.

Memphis a novel by tara m stringfellow