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Leslie-Ann Murray

Leslie-Ann Murray is a fiction writer from Trinidad & Tobago, and a citizen of East Flatbush, Brooklyn. She created Brown Girl Book Lover, a social media platform where she interviews diverse writers and reviews books that should be at the forefront of our imagination. Leslie-Ann is working on her first nonfiction essay collection, “This Has Made Us Beautiful” about incarceration, race, immigration, education, and the overwhelming impact of these political forces on herself, the boys and men in her life, and the women in her community. She has been published in Poets & Writers, Zone 3, Ploughshares, Blackbird Journal, Adroit Journal, and Salamander Literary Magazine.

Interviews

Leslie-Ann Murray

Mar 11, 2026

In Praise of Difficulty & Reading Toni Morrison: A Conversation with Namwali Serpell

“She saw the readers as a chorus, like the chorus in a Greek play, where the audience is part of the ensemble. She gives the example of when you’re in an audience in a musical performance—you’re shouting, clapping, and stomping…
Interviews

Leslie-Ann Murray

Nov 18, 2025

The “Art Cop” in the Black Imagination: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor

“It’s really insidious the ways Black, queer, and marginal writers get sequestered from reading list culture. Unfortunately, these lists get compounded year over year, and it makes it harder to find these books. We have to read these books, seek…
Interviews

Leslie-Ann Murray

Mar 26, 2025

Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis

My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.

Leslie-Ann Murray

In Praise of Difficulty & Reading Toni Morrison: A Conversation with Namwali Serpell

The “Art Cop” in the Black Imagination: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor

Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis