JJ Amaworo Wilson

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  • Stonecoast MFA Faculty
Stonecoast MFA Office: 207-780-4423

Education

  • B.A. History of Art and English Literature
  • M.A. History of Art and English Literature

JJ Amaworo Wilson鈥檚 short fiction, essays and poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including African American Journal, Justice JournalMission at TenthElectric LiteratureThe Frogmore PapersIC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and Afrobeat, among others. His first novel, Damnificados, was published by PM Press in 2016. It won four major awards, was nominated for an American Book Award, and was named a Top 10 book in 鈥淥鈥, the Oprah Winfrey magazine. His second novel is 狈补锄补谤茅, PM Press, 2021.

Amaworo Wilson has also written twenty books about language and language learning, two of which won awards that saw him honored at Buckingham Palace in 2008 and 2011 in his native UK. He is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University, USA.

Selected Publications

  • 狈补锄补谤茅: a novel. PM Press, 2021.
  • 鈥楻补尘产濒颈苍驳.鈥櫬First and Wildest聽anthology. Torres House Press. Forthcoming.
  • 鈥槺凡钩拱.鈥 Extract from novel.聽A Public Space. Fall 2020.
  • 鈥楽ix Epitaphs for the Jazz Man.鈥櫬The Bored Friday Project. September, 2020.
  • 鈥楤lack and Blue: The Uses of Anger.鈥櫬The Bored Friday Project. September, 2020
  • 鈥楤anned Books Week.鈥 pmpress.org, September, 2020.
  • Review of聽How to Pronounce Knife聽by Souvankham Thammavongsa, New York Journal of Books. April, 2020.
  • Review of聽The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil鈥檚 Everyday Insurrections聽by Eliane Brum. New York Journal of Books. January, 2020.
  • 鈥榃hen the rains came,鈥櫬Raise Up!聽TaylorMade. 2019.
  • 鈥楨nglish Language Teaching and Social Justice: Opportunities in a Time of Chaos.鈥 IATEFL Conference Selections, 2018.
  • Review of聽Abbott. New York Journal of Books. November, 2018
Stonecoast MFA Office: 207-780-4423

Education

  • B.A. History of Art and English Literature
  • M.A. History of Art and English Literature