The NAACP Image Award-winning novel highlights the stories of young Black women who were forcefully sterilized in 1973 by the federal government in Montgomery, Alabama.
Her third release, Take My Hand, continues her passion for highlighting Black stories. Her debut novel, Wench, follows the story of four Black enslaved women before the Civil War, and her second novel, Balm, explores the lives of three people after slavery ended. Perkins-Valdez believes that Black stories need to be told. “I didn’t come from a reading household, so that’s how I knew I was a true reader,” she says.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s writing career may have begun in college when a short story that she submitted to a magazine was published, but she has loved books and storytelling since she was a child.
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