Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tom Williams
Michael Copperman reviews Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tom Williams.
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Michael Copperman's work has appeared in The Sun, The Oxford-American, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, and Triquarterly Online, and garnered fellowships and awards from the Munster Literature Center, the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, and Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. His memoir about teaching in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, Faces Bright, Voices Loud, is forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi.
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