Janelle M. Williams
Janelle M. Williams received her BA from Howard University and her MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College. She was a 2017 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. She is currently a flash fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine and a nonfiction editor for Inkwell Journal. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, Prairie Schooner, the Normal School, Kweli, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, SmokeLong Quarterly, midnight & indigo, Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere.
Reading List
A Sam Cooke Affair
1. I could rely on Sam Cooke to tell my story, his music or his melanin or his murder. The song Saint picked to sing the night we fell in love was a Sam Cooke song, “Bring It On Home to Me.” It was only two weeks prior that Saint asked me if the […]