marci blackman

“Po Man’s Child stands as one of the best debut novels of the year.”
— Boulder Weekly

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Marci Blackman is the author of two novels and several short works of fiction published in various anthologies. Blackman’s first novel, Po Man’s Child, received the American Library Association’s Stonewall award for Best LBGT Fiction, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Fiction, and was picked as a selection by the Quality Paperback Book Club. Blackman's second novel, an historical murder mystery set in rural ohio, entitled, Tradition, is currently on submission. Blackman also co-edited the anthology, Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

An African American genderqueer born to activist parents during the height of the civil rights movement in Yellow Springs, Ohio—home to Antioch College, the alma mater of Coretta Scott King—Blackman's fiction explores what it means to be other in communities often deemed other themselves, revealing that mainstream or fringe there are more similarities between us than differences.

Blackman lives and writes in Sunnyside, NY.

“Blackman could be the next Toni Morrison. Or Katherine Dunn. Or William Faulkner. Or, plainly put, Marci Blackman.”
— Albuquerque Weekly

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