LaTOYA FAULK

LaToya Faulk grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She received a 2022 Pushcart special mention for the essay “In Search of Homeplace.” Her work has appeared in Scalawag, Southwest Review, Amherst College’s The Common, and Southern Foodways Alliance’s Gravy Quarterly. She has a B.A. in English Literature and a M.A. in Rhetoric and Writing from Michigan State University. She also holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Mississippi. She is currently at work on a novel and collection of personal essays. Her novel explores hygiene obsessions among a group of working-class women in a small Midwest town. The essay collection intellectualizes several personal experiences, including falling deeply in love and experiencing the rupture of divorce, becoming the caregiver of a severely schizophrenic parent, and the lasting impacts of childhood displacement as a ward of the court.

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