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Rochelle Spencer

Rochelle Spencer

Rochelle Spencer is author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and coeditor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). She is a visiting assistant professor at Fisk University and Sarah Lawrence College. icon

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