View this email in your browser Words on the Verge It was an honor to host the Straw Mat Writers last week at Words on the Verge. Thank you for sharing your words, your process, and your friendship. Leslie C. Youngblood Reads on June 2 Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former assistant professor of creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, she has lectured at Mississippi State University, UNC-Greensboro, and the University of Ghana at Legon. She began her undergraduate degree at Morris Brown College and completed her bachelor's at Georgia State University. After graduation, she served as a columnist and assistant editor for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine. She’s been awarded a host of writing honors including a 2014 Yaddo's Elizabeth Ames Residency, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the
Words on the Verge is an intersectional literary reading series featuring women & femme writers (BIPOC,queer, non-binary, & trans women to the front!) in a safe, welcoming environment.