Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of five critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently, The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan, 2020), which won the 2021 NAACP Image Award and was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, is forthcoming from Harper on July 27, 2021. Love Songs has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist, and BookPage has called her “a writer to watch.” Jeffers is Professor of English at University of Oklahoma, where she has taught since 2002.

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Spalding low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She has published her short fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, and her latest novel, When Stars Rain Down. In April of 2021, the Alabama Library Association awarded her the Alabama Authors Award in poetry.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois with Angela Jackson Brown TAKE 2