Updated at 09/04/24 at 2:05 p.m.
The nonprofit South Arts has named its 2024 Georgia Fellows in Literary Arts, awarding a coveted State Fellowship to Atlanta-based Constance Collier-Mercado, an experimental writer, poet, artist and culture worker.
Her grants will go to supporting her new work in fiction, where she investigates Black and Southern identity, mental health and the hero’s journey through a lens tinted with surrealism, Afro-futurism and folk vernacular. Collier-Mercado recently joined Lois Reitzes on City Lights to discuss the award and her work.
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