Dubois and coming across a brief reference to the founding of Wilberforce University. Perkins-Valdez has said she was inspired to write her debut novel, Wench: A Novel (2010), after reading a biography of W.E.B. She is currently an associate professor at American University in Washington, DC. Perkins-Valdez has published short fiction and essays in such magazines as The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, StorySouth, African American Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, Richard Wright Newsletter, and SLI: Studies in Literary Imagination. She completed a PhD in English at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, earning a BA degree. She is chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an American writer, best known for her debut novel Wench: A Novel (2010), which became a bestseller.
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