Stephanie Powell Watts’s debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, won a 2018 NAACP Image Award and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers choice. Her collection of short stories, We Are Taking Only What We Need, was named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine and won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/writers_forum/