Research Interests
African-American Literature, Contemporary American Literature, Fiction
Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst - MFA in Creative Writing
Awards and Honors
LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Feb. 2021.
External Links
Honors & Awards
LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2021)
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the New York Public Library (2021-22)
Highlighted Publications
Black Cloud Rising, a novel, Grove Atlantic (HarperCollins Canada, Canadian edition), February 8, 2022.
“Mixeded: The Truth about My Father,” The New Yorker, July 11-18, 2022.
“Lone Star: A Drive across the Lone Star State,” The New Yorker, July 12-19, 2021.
“The Sand Banks, 1861,” The New Yorker, Aug. 31, 2020.
Recent Publications
Wright, D. (2022). Black Cloud Rising: A Novel. Grove Atlantic.
Wright, D. (2020). "The Sand Banks, 1861". The New Yorker.
Wright, D., & Bouchard, L. (2016). Away Running. Orca Book Publishers.
Wright, D. (2014). Writing Race in America. Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Writing-Race-in-America/145111
Wright, D. (2013). Invisible Boys. American Book Review, 34(5), 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2013.0090