{"id":1060,"date":"2025-08-03T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:17:28","slug":"addie-e-citchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/addie-e-citchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Addie E. Citchens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>Dominion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addie E. Citchens is a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi and a graduate of Jackson State University, who now lives and writes in New Orleans. <em>Dominion<\/em> is her debut novel. Her fiction has appeared in\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Oxford American<\/em>\u2019s \u201cBest of the South,\u201d among other magazines, and her story \u201cThat Girl\u201d 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\u2019s Fellowship. In addition to writing fiction, Citchens served as Music Editor at <em>Mississippi Folklife<\/em>, where she became known for her articles on the history of the blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rooted.substack.com\/p\/mississippi-expat-addie-citchens\">Rooted Magazine Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/acitchens_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Britt Smith Photography, New Orleans Photographer, Black Woman, Black Writer, Addie Citchens, Woman Writer\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/acitchens_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/acitchens_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/dominion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/dominion.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/dominion-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominion<br \/>\nOctober 24, 9:40am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}