Asali SolomonAsali Solomon's latest novel, The Days of Afrekete--praised by The New York Times for its "prose as clear as water"--was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and a New York Tims Critics' and New York Magazine Top Book of 2021. Her first novel Disgruntled was called "a standout" by The Guardian and named a Best Book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. Her debut story collection, Get Down, earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence, McSweeney's, The Hopkins Review and in several anthologies, including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. She is a Professor of English and literature of the African Diaspora and the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford College, where she directs Creative Writing. Read More Read Less