The Vengeance of Elephants wins the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award, judged by Roxane Gay!

I am BEYOND thrilled and humbled that Roxane Gay chose my creative nonfiction essay! Ms. Gay called The Vengeance of Elephants:

“a beautifully structured and layered essay that manages to feel both sweeping and intimate in scope. The writer explores identity, family, her people’s history and how narrative is a complex, unwieldy thing in both right and wrong hands.”

Thank you december magazine! The elephants are rejoicing…

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