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All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color

edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer
foreword by Helena María Viramontes

University of Wisconsin Press, 2014
eISBN: 978-0-299-30193-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-30194-1
Library of Congress Classification PN6120.92.W65A45 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.01089287

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies. The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today.
The stories are by American writers Aracelis González Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sáma, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi.

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jina Ortiz is a writer and poet whose works have appeared in many publications, including the Afro-Hispanic Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and New Millennium Writings. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she is an adjunct professor of English at Quinsigamond Community College. Rochelle Spencer is a writer who has contributed to many publications, including Callaloo, African American Review, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, and Mosaic. She is completing a doctorate focusing on Afrofuturism and is on the Board of Directors for the Hurston-Wright Foundation.

REVIEWS

"All about Skin is electrifying and absolutely necessary. Within you will find the true heart of a literature."—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"There is no other short story collection even similar to All about Skin; it takes an entirely different approach in that all of the contributors are literary-award-winning African, African American, Asian, Asian American, Native American, Latina, and Caribbean women writers."—Sandra Y. Govan, University of North Carolina–Charlotte

"All about Skin takes us above and below the skin of fascinating characters from the inner cities, immigrant enclaves, and academia of the United States, and from Africa to Asia, among many settings."—María Acosta Cruz, author of Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
            Helena María Viramontes
Preface
            Rochelle Spencer
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1 Coming-of-Age
Aida
            Patricia Engel
Fairness
            Chinelo Okparanta
Pita Delicious
            ZZ Packer
Candidate
            Amina Gautier
How to Leave the Midwest
            Renee Simms
The Perfect Subject
            Ramola D.
A Different Story
            Ivelisse Rodriguez

Part 2 Reinvention
American Child
            Manjula Menon
Arcadia
            Hope Wabuke
Sirens
            Joshunda Sanders
Just the Way She Does the Things
            Jennine Capó Crucet
The Great Pretenders
            Ashley Young
A Penny, a Pound
            Princess Joy L. Perry

Part 3 Borderlands
The Accidents of a Veronica
            Toni Margarita Plummer
The Rapture
            Emily Raboteau
The Lost Ones
            Aracelis González Asendorf
Noelia and Amparo
            Glendaliz Camacho
A Strange People
            Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Lillian Is an Ordinary Child
            Metta Sáma
Entropy 20:12
            Learkana Chong
Beautiful Things
            Jacqueline Bishop
Lady Chatterley's Mansion
            Unoma Azuah
All about Skin
            Xu Xi

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