In her debut collection Tomb Sweeping: Stories, ALEXANDRA CHANG probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. HALLE HILL’pa Good Women: Stories, chronicles the stories of 12 Black women across the Appalachian South, from a woman meeting her sugar daddy’s mother to a state fair employee considering revenge on a local preacher. And in JENNIFER MARITZA MCCAULEY’pa When Trying to Return Home: Stories, the question of belonging is at the fore, told through the voices of Black American and Afro-Puerto Rican characters. Moderated by SIHAM “SAM” INSHASSI, MBF Emerging Writer Fellow in fiction.

Achte Tomb Sweeping: Stories. – Chang

Achte Good Women: Stories. – Hill

Achte When Trying to Return Home: Stories. – McCauley