About this writer
Nia Dickens is a fiction writer, whose work centers on Southern Black coming-of-age narratives. She's a former fellow of Richard Hugo House, alum of Hurston/Wright and VONA Voices workshops, and Martha's Vineyard Creative Writing Institute.
Dickens is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Miami and previously served as a teaching artist for a youth-centered literary nonprofit. Prior to 2020, she wrote for an online news media, focusing on technology and community theater, worked in nonprofit administration, and taught English internationally.
Her creative work can be found in Tahoma Literary Review and Wraparound South. The recording of her latest flash piece "The prayer Sally Hemings's mother teaches about boys named Thomas" can be found on Soundcloud. She's currently at work on a novel-in-stories.
Dickens is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Miami and previously served as a teaching artist for a youth-centered literary nonprofit. Prior to 2020, she wrote for an online news media, focusing on technology and community theater, worked in nonprofit administration, and taught English internationally.
Her creative work can be found in Tahoma Literary Review and Wraparound South. The recording of her latest flash piece "The prayer Sally Hemings's mother teaches about boys named Thomas" can be found on Soundcloud. She's currently at work on a novel-in-stories.
Copyright: Nia Dickens, 2017
Update: April 2021
Update: April 2021
