Author and Screenwriter Toya Wolfe with Jamie Thome
On November 12th, we spoke with writer Toya Wolfe!
Toya Wolfe was born and raised in the (now demolished) Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago with a Dwight W. Follett Merit Award.
Her stories have appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hairtrigger 27, and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition and the Betty Shifflet/John Schultz Short Story Award.
She currently resides in Chicago, where she is at work on a short story collection. Last Summer on State Street is her debut novel. She also was November 2020's featured Verses + Vignettes writer (check out her story, illustrated by Landis Blair, on our website!)
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