Renee Simms’ debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword INDIES Finalist and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by Black authors in 2018. She teaches at the University of Puget Sound and in the Rainier Writing Workshop.
Culture
Public Wailing as Political Dissent
Both personal and political, wailing disrupts the social order.
Renee Simms
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