Addie E. Citchens
Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s “Best of the South,” Midnight & Indigo’s speculative fiction anthology, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been heard on The Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. She was the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Writer’s Fellowship, and her short story “That Girl” won the O. Henry Prize. Dominion, Citchens’s first novel, was recently nominated to the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist and for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s “Best of the South,” Midnight & Indigo’s speculative fiction anthology, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been heard on The Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. She was the inaugural recipient of the Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Writer’s Fellowship, and her short story “That Girl” won the O. Henry Prize. Dominion, Citchens’s first novel, was recently nominated to the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist and for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
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