In 2020, she served as a judge for PEN America. Her short piece, “Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered,” is included in The 1619 Project. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in New York Magazine 's “The Cut,” “The Root,” “The Paris Review., “The White Review,” “Ploughshares,” and many other places. She was long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Heads of the Colored People has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People, won the Los Angeles Times Art Sidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Award for fiction, among other prizes. She earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in creative writing from University of Illinois and Vanderbilt University. She was born in San Diego, California, in 1983. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People, won the Los Angeles Times Art Sidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Award for fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African-American writer.
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