Black Folk Could Fly Nature Writing & Essays the creator of the Shorty

the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

original adventure

And it paid off

the ARC of racial justice—Awareness

Tomokazu Matsuyama

Black Folk Could Fly Nature Writing & Essays the creator of the ShortyA personal, social, and intellectual self portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and