Everything Inside

Joanie Conwell teaches humanities and writes about literature and culture. Her work has appeared in Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora,&nbsp;The North Carolina Literary Review,&nbsp;Carolina Parent,&nbsp;Russian Life Magazine,&nbsp;Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Lust, Love and Longing,&nbsp;CaryCitizen, the&nbsp;Independent Weekly, The Columbia Spectator,&nbsp;Dangerous Woman Project, Manuscript Magazine, and other publications. She has a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Barnard College and an MA in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures from East Carolina University. You can find her online at <a href="http://joanieconwell.com">joanieconwell.com</a>.

Joanie Conwell

Sunrise Over Maafa: On Edwidge Danticat’s “Everything Inside: Stories”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Joanie Conwell teaches humanities and writes about literature and culture. Her work has appeared in Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora,&nbsp;The North Carolina Literary Review,&nbsp;Carolina Parent,&nbsp;Russian Life Magazine,&nbsp;Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Lust, Love and Longing,&nbsp;CaryCitizen, the&nbsp;Independent Weekly, The Columbia Spectator,&nbsp;Dangerous Woman Project, Manuscript Magazine, and other publications. She has a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Barnard College and an MA in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures from East Carolina University. You can find her online at <a href="http://joanieconwell.com">joanieconwell.com</a>.