61: Lisa Braxton-Author of The Talking Drum
A long-time journalist, Lisa began writing her debut novel ten years ago, although her themes of gentrification, intra-racial tensions and the struggle of recent immigrants, told through the eyes of three residents of a Massachusetts community, seemed ripped from the headlines. As Lisa so aptly puts it: "These problems never seem to go away." She found her publisher, a feminist press based in Canada, the old-fashioned way: a face to face meeting at a writer's conference.
Lisa Braxton is the recipient of a 2020 Outstanding Literary Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for…
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