Joe Okonkwo
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Joe Okwonko is an American writer, whose debut novel Jazz Moon won the Edmund White Award[1] and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction,[2] in 2017.
Originally from Syracuse, New York, he has been based in New York City since 2000.[3] He is the fiction editor of Newtown Literary,[3] and edited the 2017 edition of Lethe Press's annual Best Gay Stories anthology.
References
- ↑ "Joe Okonkwo Wins Edmund White Award For Debut Fiction". Soule, May 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Joe Okonkwo’s Jazz Moon Is a Finalist for the 2017 LAMBDA Literary Awards". Brittle Paper, March 22, 2017.
- 1 2 "Joe Okonkwo on the Gay Black Entertainers of 1920s Harlem and Paris". Electric Lit, June 14, 2016.
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