Denne Michele Norris

Denne performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, on September 26, 2018, speaking on the theme, “A Place for Us.” She also led a College Readiness after-school workshop for SpeakTogether at Union Settlement in East Harlem on December 5, 2018.

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, VCCA, and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction, and appears in McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and ZORA. She co-hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot, and is hard at work on her debut novel. Follow her on Twitter and IG @thedennemichele.

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