Neesha Powell-Ingabire

Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays From Georgia’s Geechee Coast (Hub City Press, September), a debut memoir that recalls the kinfolk, places, traditions, and watershed events that make us, tracing the history of the Geechee Coast while blending visuals, reportage, prose poetry, and family memories to reconcile what we carry within us and what carries us in turn. Agent: None. Editor: Katherine Webb-Hehn. First Lines: “Eating chicken tenders and potato spuds at Spanky’s by the mall or by the marsh on Highway 17 for special occasions. The rumor our town might get a Red Lobster one day. Seeing Grandma working every day in my elementary school cafeteria. When she told me the Black cafeteria workers cheered because O.J. won his case.” I RECENTLY asked my writing students, “Why are…

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