Visiting Writer Series: Alexia Arthurs 4/19/21

Alexia Arthurs was born in Jamaica and moved with her family to Brooklyn when she was twelve. A graduate of Hunter College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has published fiction in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Small Axe, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of an O. Henry award for the story “Mermaid River.” How to Love a Jamaican is her first book. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colby College.