Dani evans
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Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The Bridge Book Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, and The LA Times Book prize for fiction. She is the 2021 winner of The New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and a 2011 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, The Sewanee Review, and Phoebe, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2018, and in New Stories From The South.
She received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, previously taught creative writing at American University in Washington DC and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a
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Danielle Evans
Look Back at It(Excerpt)
And truly, the first half of Valaida Snow’s life filmed like a dream, and Nichelle was perfect in the role, and though, in the interest of respectability politics, the script edits decided to gloss over the intensity of the abuse in Snow’s first marriage, and the scandalous age gap between Snow and her second husband, whom she married when she was 35 and he was 19, an audience might never have missed those omissions, captivating as it was to watch Nichelle sing and dance her way through the Swing era, to hear Snow’s trumpeting reproduced in surround sound by a Florida A&M musical prodigy, to take in the visual buffet of sets and establishing shots of the early years of Snow’s tour of Europe and Asia. The problem for Snow was that, having left her own country because she knew it to be a dangerous place, the idea that she should have to leave Europe and return to the US in the interest of her safety or freedom seemed laughable. She stayed on tour in Denmark when US performers were summoned home (Home! Where in her birth state of Te
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Danielle Evans (writer)
American fiction writer
Danielle Valore Evans[1] is an American fiction writer. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa.[2] In 2011, she was honored by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35" fiction writers.[3]Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, her first short story collection, won the 2011 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize. The collection's title echoes a line from "The Bridge Poem," from Kate Rushin's collection The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books, 1993).[4] Reviewing the book in The New York Times, Lydia Peelle observed that the stories "evoke the thrill of an all-night conversation with your hip, frank, funny college roommate."[5]
Evans's work was anthologized in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best American Short Stories collections in 2008, 2010, and 2017. Her stories have also appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. In 2014 she became an assistant professor in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[6] Previous
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