5/15/2023 0 Comments Kennedy ryan hook shotI really appreciate the steps the RWA board of directors have and are taking to eliminate the systemic biases that have excluded many authors of color. I hope my story is great, but I don’t want people to think I’m exceptional in the sense that there weren’t others writing stories that should have received this award by now. Not to mention other emerging authors of color who have gone unacknowledged by the RITAs. Black authors like Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Rochelle Alers, Sandra Kitt, to name just a few, have been telling excellent stories for years. There are soooo many shoulders I’m standing on. This win kicks down a door that should have been flung open long ago. It’s also bittersweet in the sense that I know I should not have been the first. First of all, it’s so humbling and such an honor, of course. Kennedy Ryan: I don’t think I have fully absorbed it.
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