Join us for a reading and conversation with Joshunda Sanders in celebration of the release of her debut novel, Women of the Post.

A proud Bronx native, Joshunda is the author of several books, most recently, her debut novel, Women of the Post, from Park Row books in summer 2023. Joshunda is also the Senior Executive Communications Officer to the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her cross-genre writing has appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, Oprah Daily, TIME Magazine, Poets & Writers, The New York Times, Oxford American and many other publications. She serves as a Hedgebrook alumnae ambassador and has been the recipient of writing residencies, fellowships or awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Lambda Literary, Bronx Council on the Arts, Hedgebrook, VONA and the Key West Literary Seminars. In 2018, she was awarded the competitive Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award for excellence in fiction.

In Summer 2019, her first children’s book, I Can Write The World, featuring Ava Murray, a Black girl journalist from the Bronx, was published by Six Foot Press. Her previous publications include How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color; a novella, All City; and a memoir, The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans.

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