Addie E. Citchens

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Addie E. Citchens


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Addie E. Citchens was born in the Mississippi Delta and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American, Midnight & Indigo, Mississippi Folklife Magazine, and other publications. She was the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Straus and Giroux Writer’s Fellowship, and her short story “That Girl” was an O. Henry Prize winner. Dominion is her first novel.

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Dominion

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“What looked like a snap to other people was actually an erosion of the surfaces that we built up for protection, and unfortunately people would rather dwell on the snap than the wearing.”
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion

“Some of life's lessons will only be purchased with pain and blood.”
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion

“To woman he gave a womb”
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion

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