Ana-Maurine Lara | Kohnjehr Woman | ‘Ana Lara’s Kohnjehr Woman evokes a world such as only narrative poetry can. In a series of concise, orally grounded and visually vivid poems, she int
Pat Parker | The Complete Works of Pat Parker | During her lifetime, Pat Parker was a renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer. She was the author of Jonestown & Other Madness
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Nalo Hopkinson | The Salt Roads | Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a desperate search to discover herself and inhabits the
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | ‘Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood. Follows the lives and struggles of twelve very diffe
Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol
Leona Beasley | Something Better Than Home | Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Fiction Something Better than Home is the story of a young black girl growing up in the 1970s South who, af
Mia McKenzie | The Summer We Got Free | If you are reader of Mia McKenzie’s blog, Black Girl Dangerous, you already know, and you’re probably already excited to read The Summer We Got Free,
