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Author: Donna Hemans

Jamaican-born Donna Hemans is the author of the novel River Woman, winner of the 2003-4 Towson University Prize for Literature. Tea by the Sea—for which she won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award for Adult Literature—is her second novel and will be published on June 9th by Red Hen Press. Her short fiction has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, and the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, among others. She received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University and an MFA from American University. She lives in Maryland. For more information visit donnahemans.com.
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