About
Dionne Ford is author of Go Back and Get It, a 2024 finalist for the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Award and co-editor of the anthology Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, LitHub, The Boston Globe, New Jersey Monthly, Rumpus and Ebony among other publications and won awards from the the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She teaches creative writing at Fordham University and is editor of Lynchings in the North, an initiative of the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University.
Featured Work
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal.
Other Works
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"Real Americans" (novel excerpt)
2025
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Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
2019
Awards and Recognition
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (2018)
- Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award Finalist in Memoir (2024)
- Louisiana State University Special Collections Research, Grant Recipient (2017)
- Sustainable Arts Foundation, Grant Recipient (Fall 2016)
- National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence, Award Winner (2014)
- Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page, Award Winner (2014)
- Geraldine R. Dodge, Grant Recipient (2006, 2007)
