Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe

Fellow: Awarded 2024
Field of Study: General Nonfiction

Competition: US & Canada

Christina Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010), In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and, most recently, Ordinary Notes (2023). Ordinary Notes won the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for The National Book Award in Nonfiction, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, the LA Times Current Interest Book Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography. Her work has appeared in many artist catalogues and in Frieze, Paris Review, Harpers, BOMB Magazine, The Funambulist, Artforum and Art in America. In April 2024, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction. Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto, where she lives.

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