This week, Write On! interviews fantasy and historical fiction author Dr. Donna Clovis.
Dr. Donna Clovis is the current ‘Outstanding Book Award Winner’ in 2019 and 2020 for NABJ for her books, Quantum Leaps In Princeton’s Place and Falling Bedrooms. She has an earned a doctorate from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, in Arts and Humanities. Dr. Clovis has also won two journalism fellowships: McCloy Fellowship from the American Council on Germany and Harvard University and a Prudential Fellowship from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The McCloy Fellowship resulted in producing documentary work about Holocaust survivors in Germany, now archived in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. These are the first monologues written by Clovis in documentary theatre.
Clovis won a first-place feature-writing award on racial profiling from the ‘National Association Of Black Journalists’ in 1999.
Dr. Clovis writes historical fiction and fantasy novels about Princeton. Quantum Leaps In Princeton’s Place is the first from 1912-1950, Six Doors Down (1960-2000), The Future Is My Past, Time Is The Length To Forever and the most current, Falling Bedrooms, Just A Book In The Library and The South Of Black Forgiveness.
She is Assistant Professor of English/Theatre for Rider University.
WO: How would you describe your writing to someone new to it?
DC: I write historical fiction, crime fiction, experimental works and fantasy.
WO: Can you tell us a bit about your latest book?
DC: The South Of Black Forgiveness uses the true crimes against Black women as a premise for the book. Here is the trailer:
