Michelle Cliff | No Telephone to Heaven | A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinne
Sheree L. Greer | Once and Future Lovers | A busted bicycle mocks a broken heart, a teenage girl discovers the truth about desire in the heft of her grandmother’s breast, and a spurned lover co
Barbara Smith | The Truth That Never Hurts | The Truth That Never Hurts brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism and political thought about gender, race, se
Tee Franklin | Bingo Love | ‘When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mar
L.M. Bennett | B-Sides and Other Misheard Lyrics | A reluctant time traveler, an ex-lesbian, her ex-girlfriend, a novice poker player and a smitten young man all walk into a bar, and a restaurant, and
Lauren Cherelle | The Dawn of Nia | Nia Ellis is grief stricken when Pat, her mentor, passes away. At the funeral, Nia is blindsided by Pat’s deep-seated secret, which sparks feelings of
TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa | Cadan is cousin to the King of Nidum star system, and his favorite weapon to needle the Imperial forces encroaching on their territory. With her comba
Nikki Harmon | Neither Here Nor There | Kim is your typical rebellious black gay nerd aspiring astrophysicist, biding her time in college until she can get to her dream job at NASA. Returnin
Krystal A. Smith | Two Moons | A splendid debut collection of speculative fiction that traverses the connections between earth and the heavens, the living and the spectral, human an
Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele | when they call you a terrorist | ‘The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. From one of the co-founders of the Bl
