JAMILA MINNICKS es el autor de Moonrise Over New Jessup: A Novel (Algonquin Books), which won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her short stories have been published in CRAFT, The Write Launch, y The Silent World in Her Vase, and elsewhere, and her piece Politics of Distraction was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Howard University School of Law, and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C.