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Brit Bennett In Conversation with Jazmine Hughes via Crowdcast (6/6)

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Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF (Riverhead), will be in conversation with Jazmine Hughes, a story editor for The New York Times Magazine, at a Politics & Prose virtual event, in partnership with Girls Night In, via Crowdcast on Saturday, June 6 at 7:00pm (ET).

From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, THE VANISHING HALF is stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

Born and raised in Southern California, Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. She was one of the National Book Foundation’s 2016 5 Under 35 honorees.

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Posted: June 4, 2020