Dionne Ford

Dionne Ford is author of Go Back and Get It, a 2024 finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award in memoir. She is also co-editor of the anthology Slavery’s Descendants: Shared legacies of Race and Reconciliation. Her work has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Dionne holds an MFA in fiction from NYU and a BA from Fordham University where she teaches creative writing.