author of Dominion
Addie E. Citchens is a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi and a graduate of Jackson State University, who now lives and writes in New Orleans. Dominion is her debut novel. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s “Best of the South,” among other magazines, and her story “That Girl” won an O. Henry Prize. She has studied writing at Florida State University and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and she is the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Straus and Giroux Writer’s Fellowship. In addition to writing fiction, Citchens served as Music Editor at Mississippi Folklife, where she became known for her articles on the history of the blues.
