Zone 3 Visiting Writers Series: Destiny Birdsong

Please join Zone 3 Press, the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, and APSU Creative Writing for an evening of creative writing, craft talk, and community. A Q&A and book signing will follow the event. Light refreshments will be served.

Destiny O. Birdsong is a writer whose work has appeared in the Paris Review’s The Daily, Poets & Writers, African American Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She has received support from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Pink Door, MacDowell, The Ragdale Foundation, and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in 2020. Her debut novel, Nobody’s Magic, was published by Grand Central in 2022, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and won the 2022 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. She earned her BA in English and history from Fisk University, and her MFA in poetry and PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. In 2022, she was selected as the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University-Newark and served as a 2022-2024 Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine.

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