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Donna Hemans

Donna Hemans is the author of River Woman, Tea by the Sea, and The House of Plain Truth. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Slice, Shenandoah Literary, Ms. Magazine, among others.

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We Run Things, Things Don’t Run Us

Sep 3 - Donna Hemans

This Novel Asks How Do Survivors Seek Justice When Society Looks Away

Feb 25 - Donna Hemans

How a Chance Rescue Saved Zora Neale Hurston’s Unpublished Novel From Turning into Ashes

Jan 17 - Donna Hemans
Group of people surrounding a campfire on a Dominican Republic beach

8 Books on Love, Loss, and Betrayal in the Caribbean

Jan 26 - Donna Hemans
A woman with dreadlocks and her face obscured stands outside, surrounded by trees

Safiya Sinclair’s Journey to Finding Her Own Power

Oct 5 - Donna Hemans

Job Counseling Sessions Gave Me Space to Tell My Story

Sep 30 - Donna Hemans

A Jamaican American Searches for Identity and Belonging in Miami

Sep 6 - Donna Hemans

8 Jamaican Women Writers You Should Be Reading

Mar 3 - Donna Hemans

A Black Woman’s Quest to Trace Her Lineage

Aug 24 - Donna Hemans
A heart-shaped circle of homes in Jamaica

I Can Only Save My Grandparents’ Home by Preserving It in Fiction

Apr 16 - Donna Hemans

How I Learned to Embrace Jamaican Patois, the Language of My Youth

Dec 4 - Donna Hemans

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