Book of The Month:
Ours, by Phillip B. Williams
Photo Credit: © Nicholas Nichols
Harare Book Club is pleased to announce that we shall be celebrating North American Black History Month in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States of America in Zimbabwe.
On the afternoon of Wednesday 19th February, we shall host a discussion focusing on literature beyond borders, the significance of Black-American literary canon, and a virtual discussion with New York -based author Phillip B. Williams.
Author Biography:
Phillip B. Williams is an author and poet from Chicago, Illinois. His two poetry collections:
Thief in the Interior, won the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and
Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award. Williams is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the American National Endowment for the Arts.
He currently teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at New York University and the Randolph College low-residency MFA.
Williams’ first novel Ours published by Viking in 2024 is a grand tale about a hidden town in rural Missouri. The town is conjured by a mystical woman named Saint as a safe haven for emancipated African-Americans.
Harare Book Club is immensely thankful to the US Embassy in Zimbabwe for this opportunity.