The winner of the BCALA 1st Novelist Award for Grace: a Novel (Counterpoint Press). Deón currently teaches law at Trinity Law School and Mount St. Mary’s College.
The winner of BCALA’s Honor Book for Best Poetry Award for Attraversiamo : let’s cross over (NYQ Books).Ms. Ferrell is a professor of English and teaches Literature, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Composition in New York City.
BCALA and BibloBoard 2017 e-book Self-Publishing Literary Poetry Award for On Life (Create Space Publishing).Ms. Harris is a poet, writer, blogger and currently lives in North Chicago, IL.
The BCALA Literary Awards Committee presents the Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Tyehimba Jess for Olio (Wave Books). Tyehimba Jess is a Cave Canem and New York University Alumni and an Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island.
BCALA and BibloBoard 2017 e-book Self-Publishing Literary Awards Honor Book Winner for Fiction for Melting the Blues (Gold Fern Press).
Ms. McGhee currently resides in Washington, DC where she works in education.
The winner of BCALA’s Honor Book/ Nonfiction for Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools(The New Press). Dr. Morris is currently an adjunct associate professor for Saint Mary's College of California.
BCALA and BibloBoard 2017 e-book Self-Publishing Literary Awards Winner/ Fiction for Book of Addis: Cradled Embers: a Novel (For the People Press)Brooke is a writer and editor who lives in Harlem. She is currently working on the sequel to her debut novel Book of Addis.
The winner in the Nonfiction category for Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.Shetterly is a writer who grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in Hidden Figures. She lives in...
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The winner for BCALA’s Best Poetry Award For Counting Descent: Poems(Write Bloody Publishing).Mr. Smith was born and raised in New Orleans and is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University.
