On top of her novels, Perkins-Valdez has also written short fiction and essays that have been published in StoryQuarterly, StorySouth, African American Review, The Kenyon Review, and SLI: Studies in Literary Imagination. She works as an Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University. She goes to schools to talk about the importance of reading and writing. In her role with the foundation, Perkins-Valdez has visited nearly every public high school in the District of Columbia. In addition to her work as an author, Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She then went to George Washington University where she earned her PhD in English. The author attended Harvard College where she earned her BA degree. She was also a president’s postdoctoral fellow at the Center for African American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and received a DC Commission on the Arts Grant to aid in completion of her second novel. Dolen also received the First Novelist Award in 2011 for Wench by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She was a 2009 finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award. She earned many other honors during her career. She is a former finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a bestselling author who made her debut in 2010 with the release of Wench: A Novel.
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