Nia Dickens is an emerging fiction writer, whose work centers on Southern Black coming-of-age narratives. She's a former fellow of Richard Hugo House (Seattle) and alum of Hurston/Wright and VONA Voices workshops.
Dickens currently serves as a teaching artist for Write253, a Tacoma-based nonprofit for youth writers, and in Fall 2020, she'll start an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.
Her story "The Prodigal Son" can be found in the Fall 2020 edition of Wraparound South.
Copyright: Nia Dickens, 2017 Update: September 2020