Tara M. Stringfellow

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Tara M. Stringfellow is a former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose debut novel and national bestseller Memphis was a Read with Jenna pick and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Fiction. A cross-genre artist, the author was Northwestern University’s first MFA graduate in both poetry and prose and her work has appeared in Collective UnrestJet Fuel ReviewMinerva RisingWomen’s Arts Quarterly and Apogee Journal, among others. After having lived in Okinawa, Ghana, Chicago, Cuba, Spain, Italy, and Washington, D.C., she moved back home to Memphis, where she sits on her porch swing every evening with her hound, Huckleberry, listening to records and chatting with neighbors.

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SELECTED WORK:

 
Cover of Magic Enuff, featuring the silhouette of a dark-skinned woman surrounded by stylized flowers and plants. Author: Tara M. Stringfellow.
Cover of Memphis, featuring four dark-skinned women and girls gathered together, illustrated in block colors. Author: Tara M. Stringfellow. Read with Jenna sticker on the cover.