The Body Family

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Hope Wabuke is a writer whose star will continue to rise. Shes published widely including in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc. She writers criticism for NPR. Similar to Maya Marshall, shes an educator and continues her stewardship for other writers. The contacts, community support and perhaps the buzz for her forthcoming memoir will help to lift this debut poetry collection up, and get it in mainstream audiences who are already familiar with her work.

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Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Please Dont Kill My Black Son Please. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media & Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.