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Princess Joy L. Perry

Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About SkinAfrican American Review, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

Princess Joy L. Perry

Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About SkinAfrican American Review, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

Books by Princess Joy L. Perry

  • This Here Is Love: A Novel

    Princess Joy L. Perry

    Hardback, 2025

    Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be