KIVEL CARSON

Kivel Carson is a storyteller, daydreamer, and organizer whose fiction is concerned with Black life, labor, and empire. The linked story collection she’s refining this summer, Everything Not in the Family Bible, is rooted in Black American spirituality and gets its name from the archival system Black families used to store generations of vital records while left out of other official record keeping and history. The work complicates that archive by inserting the stories told in secret, hidden in plain sight, told orally and not recorded that sketch fuller lives than what’s left in official records.

Kivel’s work has been supported by Kimbilio, Periplus, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop; and can be found in Blackbird, Augur, Nightmare, Moko, and the anthology Black From the Future (BLF Press).