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Nicole Dennis-Benn

Black Writers' Room: Nicole Dennis-Benn

“Most of my works, I’m delving deeper into the stories of women because we’re so used to being silenced.” Nicole Dennis-Benn, who won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for her debut novel, Here Comes the Sun (Liveright, 2016), speaks about exploring dynamics of race, money, class, culture, and gender in Jamaica in her writing.

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Nicole Dennis-Benn
Here Comes the Sun
2017
2016
Liveright
Lambda Literary Awards

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