Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, and other publications. Promise (Random House, July 2023) is her first novel.
Kirkus Reviews calls Promise “a stunning and evocative portrait of love, pride, and survival.”
“You put so much of your life and imagination into a book like this”— Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Promise, Harper’s Bazaar
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