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name: Leslie C. Youngblood
about: Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A formerassistant professor of creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, she has lectured atMississippi State University, UNC-Greensboro, and the University of Ghana at Legon. She’s beenawarded a host of writing honors, including a 2014 Yaddo’s Elizabeth Ames Residency, the LorianHemingway Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the Room of Her Own Foundation’s2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. In 2010 she won the Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award. Bornin Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Rochester, New York, her debut novel, Love Like Sky, will be published November 6, 2018, Disney Hyperion.