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Jewell
Parker Rhodes
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Jewell Parker Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Her stories have been anthologized in
Children of the Night: Best Short Stories by Black
Writers, edited by Gloria Naylor (Little Brown, 1996), and
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and
Europe, edited by Charles Rowell (Westview Press/Harper Collins, 1995).
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Jewell is a prolific writer and her short fiction has appeared in
Callaloo, Calyx, The Seattle Review,
Feminist Studies, Peregrine, Hayden’s Ferry
Review, and Shooting Star Review, among others. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and among her other numerous awards are the Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowship, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, and two Distinguished Teaching Awards.
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Photo by Susan Rae Lakin
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Jewell received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Arts in English (Creative Writing) from Carnegie-Mellon University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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