Behind the Book | Episode 1: Chavonn Williams Shen

Welcome back to episode two of Behind the Book! On today's episode, Cecilia Gray and Sabrina Josephson interview Chavonn Williams Shen, a Minneapolis native, educator, and activist. They are a winner of the Still I Rise grant, a first runner-up for the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Contest and a Best of the Net Award finalist. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a fellow through the Givens Foundation for African American Literature, Williams Shen has had their poetry and prose appear in Yemassee, the Los Angeles Review, Permafrost Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere.