Lauren Francis-Sharma, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, continues to explore the story of her Caribbean ancestors’ history in her new novel, Book of the Little Axe. She will be hosted on South End Writes via ZOOM on Tuesday, September 22, at 7:00 PM (details at the bottom of the page).
Her new work of fiction was preceded by the 2014 ‘Til the Well Runs Dry, a first novel that was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize. It won the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was also chosen as an O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick and lauded by the New York Times, USA Today, Essence Magazine, and People Magazine among other publications. Inspired by her grandmother’s journey from Trinidad to the United States, Francis-Sharma’s debut novel was the subject of feature articles about her Caribbean ancestry in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
The author’s short story, Demented, is featured in the anthology Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family Love and Faith, edited by Marita Golden. Before becoming a novelist, Francis-Sharma worked as a mergers-and-acquisitions attorney; currently, she is the owner of DC Writers Room, a co-working space dedicated to both published and aspiring writers. She is also the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College and a MacDowell Fellow.
Lauren lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children and “is always working on another book.”
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