Roxane Gay | Difficult Women | Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection B
Charles Vert Willie; Richard Reddick | A New Look At Black Families | A New Look at Black Families provides a provocative and precocious analysis of the diversity of the black family experience in which black families of
E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,
Alethia Jones; Virginia Eubanks; Barbara Smith | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | 2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, presented by the Publishing Triangle
2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography, pr
Rebekah Weatherspoon | Treasure | Her sister’s bachelorette party is the highlight of a miserable year for Alexis Chambers, but once her bridesmaid’s dress is packed away, she’s back t
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
Makhosazana Xaba; Crystal Biruk | Proudly Malawian | This groundbreaking collection brings together the life stories of eleven lesbian, bisexual ad gender nonconforming Malawians. Told in the contributo
Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | The first full-length biography of the author of The Color Purple–an American icon praised and pilloried for her art and activism. Born to a share
Karen Martin; Makhosazana Xaba | Queer Africa | Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other o
Kekla Magoon | 37 Things I Love | Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother’s desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis’s father alive for two years f
