JJ Amaworo Wilson
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- Stonecoast MFA Faculty
Education
- B.A. History of Art and English Literature
- M.A. History of Art and English Literature
JJ Amaworo Wilson’s short fiction, essays and poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including African American Journal, Justice Journal, Mission at Tenth, Electric Literature, The Frogmore Papers, IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and Afrobeat, among others. His first novel, Damnificados, was published by PM Press in 2016. It won four major awards, was nominated for an American Book Award, and was named a Top 10 book in “O”, the Oprah Winfrey magazine. His second novel is Nazaré, PM Press, 2021.
Amaworo Wilson has also written twenty books about language and language learning, two of which won awards that saw him honored at Buckingham Palace in 2008 and 2011 in his native UK. He is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University, USA.
Selected Publications
- Nazaré: a novel. PM Press, 2021.
- ‘Rambling.’ First and Wildest anthology. Torres House Press. Forthcoming.
- ‘Nazaré.’ Extract from novel. A Public Space. Fall 2020.
- ‘Six Epitaphs for the Jazz Man.’ The Bored Friday Project. September, 2020.
- ‘Black and Blue: The Uses of Anger.’ The Bored Friday Project. September, 2020
- ‘Banned Books Week.’ pmpress.org, September, 2020.
- Review of How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa, New York Journal of Books. April, 2020.
- Review of The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections by Eliane Brum. New York Journal of Books. January, 2020.
- ‘When the rains came,’ Raise Up! TaylorMade. 2019.
- ‘English Language Teaching and Social Justice: Opportunities in a Time of Chaos.’ IATEFL Conference Selections, 2018.
- Review of Abbott. New York Journal of Books. November, 2018
Education
- B.A. History of Art and English Literature
- M.A. History of Art and English Literature