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Jamie Moore

Jamie Moore is an English Professor who reads diverse literature in all its forms, loves hiphop, and writes about her mixed family. She's on Twitter: @mixedreader.

Two Elegies on Black Girlhood

Two works that reflect on the experience of being a black girl.

Beyonce’s Lemonade is Made for Readers

Why Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade is made for book lovers.

Flash Fiction Got My Groove Back

I used to be the kid who gobbled up a book in a day.  On the weekend, I would find ...

How Your Reading Changes When You Write and Teach

How we identify in our personal, professional, and social lives affects what we read and how we read it. I ...

Giving Voice to Black Youth in YA

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Giving Voice to Black Youth in YA

This is a guest post from Jamie Moore. Jamie is the author of Our Small Faces (ELJ Publications, 2014). She ...

Building a Better Canon: Stories of the Mixed Experience

Jamie Moore is the author of Our Small Faces (ELJ Publications, 2014). She received her MFA from Antioch University Los ...