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Nicole Dennis-Benn

Award-Winning Author Known for "Here Comes the Sun"

Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Authors, Black Heritage, Black History Month, Diversity & Inclusion, Literary, Social Activism
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Nicole Dennis-Benn Biography

Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of "Here Comes The Sun," a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a 2017 Lambda Literary Award winner, and the Bestselling novel, "Patsy," which is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Financial Times Critics Choice, a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, and a Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club selection. "Patsy" has been named Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, TIME, NPR, PEOPLE Magazine, Washington Post, Apple Books, Oprah Magazine, The Guardian, Goodhousekeeping, BuzzFeed, ELLE, among others.

In addition to being a two-time Lambda Literary Award Winner for her novels, Dennis-Benn is a recipient of the National Foundation for the Arts Grant. She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and has recently been long-listed for The Pen/Faulkner Award in Fiction and short-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Lenny Letter, The Rumpus, Catapult, Red Rock Review, and Kweli Literary Journal, Mosaic, Ebony, and the Feminist Wire. She has previously taught in the writing programs at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, and City College; and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Lambda, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Hurston/Wright, and Sewanee Writers' Conference.

Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a graduate of St. Andrew High School for Girls and Cornell University; and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Dennis-Benn is the founder of the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/10/2024.

Nicole Dennis-Benn Videos

  • Nicole Dennis-Benn speaking at Ms. Magazine with Carmen Rios
    Nicole Dennis-Benn speaking at Ms. Magazine with Carmen Rios
    Nicole Dennis Benn at Ms Magazine with Carmen Rios Join us in Los Angeles on August 12 for an evening of cocktails and conversation with Lambda...
  • Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Erna Brodber, author of Nothing’s Mat (2014) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes...
  • Working-class people need to be seen, says Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Working-class people need to be seen, says Nicole Dennis-Benn
    Nicole Dennis-Benn says she never could have become a writer if she had stayed in Jamaica -- that took living in the U.S. and encouragement from her...
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Nicole Dennis-Benn Books

  • Patsy
    Patsy
  • Here Comes The Sun
    Here Comes The Sun

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