Bernardine Watson

TRANSPLANT

A Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transplant: A Memoir, is a page-turning, personal journey into one Black woman's battle with kidney disease and the American medical system. Bernardine Watson's book is at once a truth-telling and an affirmation of the life force propelling us all toward love and hope. A vibrant, powerful portrait of what it means to be Black, female, and confronting a deadly disease in today's America. Winner of the first annual Washington Writers' Publishing House Creative Nonfiction Award, 2023. Named one of the '5 over 50' debuts in 2023 by Poets & Writers magazine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Washington Writers' Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 135mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781941551363
• ISBN-10: 194155136X
• Artikelnr.: 68488569

Autorenporträt

Bernardine (Dine) Watson is a nonfiction writer and poet, originally from Philadelphia, but who now lives in Washington, DC. She has written on social policy issues for numerous major foundations, nonprofit organizations, and for The Washington Post Health and Science section and She the People blog. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Rising Voices/ University Professors Press, Sanctuary/ Darkhouse Books, and The Great World of Days/ Day Eight Arts. Dine is a member of the 2015 class of the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Poet in Progress Program and was selected to participate in the 2017 and 2018 classes of the Hurston Wright Foundation's Summer Writers' Workshop for Poetry. She is a member of Day Eight Art's Board of Directors. More on her website: www.bernardinewatson.com