Nicole Dennis-Benn

Nicole Dennis-Benn
Born Kingston, Jamaica
Nationality Jamaican
Known for Writer
Website www.nicoledennisbenn.com

Nicole Dennis-Benn is an award winning and acclaimed Jamaican writer.[1][2]

Life and work

Born Nicole Dennis and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she left Jamaica at 17 to go to college. Her bachelor's degree was pre-med and is from Cornell University. She gained further education and her first master’s in public health at the University of Michigan’s in Ann Arbor after which she worked as a researcher at Columbia and then completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.[3][4][5]

Dennis-Benn went on to be awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Lambda, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Hurston/Wright, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. Dennis-Benn won the Richard and Julie Logsdon Fiction Prize. Her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Fiction and in 2016 she was nominated for the NBCC John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.[6][7][8]

Dennis-Benn has also written for The New York Times, ELLE Magazine, Catapult, Red Rock Review, Kweli Literary Journal, Ebony, and the Feminist Wire.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

She lives with her wife, Dr. Emma Benn, in Brooklyn, New York. They married in May 26, 2012.[8]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Review: In 'Here Comes the Sun,' a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica". The New York Times. 29 June 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn review – the ills of paradise". The Guardian. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Forbidden Love, and a View of Jamaica Beyond the Beaches". The New York Times. 26 May 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ "'This Is No Paradise': Author Explores The Side Of Jamaica Tourists Don't See : NPR". Npr.org. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Coming Out as a Writer - Original Essay by Nicole Dennis-Benn". Powells. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Center for Fiction". Centerforfiction.org. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ "NBCC 2016 John Leonard Prize Finalists Announced". Publishersweekly.tumblr.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 "IN HER OWN WORDS: Couple Makes History at First Lesbian Wedding in Jamaica - EBONY". Ebony.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "A Woman-Child in Jamaica". The New York Times. 30 July 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Growing Up With Miss Jamaica". Elle.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Shifting Selves: Holding Two Flags". Https:. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Catapult". Https:. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  13. ↑ "What's In a Name by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn — KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices". Kwelijournal.org. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
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