The essays\, collected online\, are an opp ortunity for now-adult writers to examine how the school experience formed (or malformed) their racial consciousness. The truth-telling project has been featured in the Washington Post\, Slate\, Mother Jones\, The Hechinge r Report\, Forbes and The American Conservative.
\n\nFent ress is a graduate of Pillow Academy in Greenwood\, Mississippi. Ellen Ann Fentress writes about Deep South politics and culture\, looking for how b ig truths pulse in individual life stories. Her essays have appeared in Th e New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, The Baffler\, Oxfo rd American\, Scalawag\, storySouth\, and New Madrid\, as well as on Missi ssippi public radio\, where she was also a reporter. Fentress launched The Academy Stories in 2019\, an online forum about the impact of the South&r squo\;s circa 1970 segregation academies on its past and present. Her docu mentary "Eyes on Mississippi"\, a 56-minute film on the career of iconic c ivil-rights journalist Bill Minor\, is screened nationally.
\nPaulet te Boudreaux is a Mississippi native who lives in California. Her debut no vel\, "Mulberry\," won the first Lee Smith Novel Prize at Carolina Wren Pr ess\, an Independent Publisher Book Award silver medal for Best Southern F iction\, was a finalist for the Crook&rsquo\;s Corner Book Prize\, and a f inalist for Silicon Valley Reads. Her short fiction has appeared in nation al and international literary journals. She has a BA in journalism from No rtheastern University and an MFA from Mills College. She is tenured Englis h faculty at West Valley College and associate faculty in the MFA program at the Mississippi University for Women.
\nW. Ralph Eubanks is the a uthor of "A Place Like Mississippi\," "Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past\," and "The House at the End of the Road: The Sto ry of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South." H e has contributed articles to the Washington Post Outlook and Style sectio ns\, WIRED\, The Hedgehog Review\, The Wall Street Journal\, The American Scholar\, The New Yorker\, and National Public Radio. A graduate of the Un iversity of Mississippi (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A.\, Engl ish Language and Literature)\, he is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fell owship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and has been a fellow at the New America Foundation. Ralph lives in Washington\, DC\, with his wife and three children. From 1995 to 2013 he was director of publishing for t he Library of Congress and is the former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia. Currently he is a visiting professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi.
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