Tina McElroy Ansa is the author of the novels Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways, The Hand I Fan With, You Know Better, and Taking After Mudear. She is also a publisher, raconteur, teacher, and filmmaker. She is completing Secrets of a Bogart Queen, a work of nonfiction.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Trokosi Mirror of the US-Mexican Border: On Bernice L. McFadden’s “Praise Song for the Butterflies”
Bernice L. McFadden's "Praise Song for the Butterflies" is short and spare, but its portrait of a child abandoned will haunt readers....
Injustice and Intimacy in Tayari Jones’s “An American Marriage”
Tina McElroy Ansa reviews Tayari Jones's new novel....
