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Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. Her work has appeared in Story Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, and The Feminist Wire, among other publications. She was a 2016 fellow of the Callaloo Writer’s Workshop.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 18,995 ratings · 3,266 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times (Contributor), Caitlin Roper (Editor) 4.61 avg rating — 25,911 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) 3.16 avg rating — 12,914 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heads of the Colored People 4.11 avg rating — 8,015 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Deryn Rees-Jones 3.97 avg rating — 3,253 ratings — published 1926 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volume 0: Issue 4 by Annie Hamilton, Victoria Dalpe (Goodreads Author), Eliza Clark 3.21 avg rating — 145 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford 4.10 avg rating — 73 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suicide, Watch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford (October 6th, 2026) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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