Brandy T. Wilson

Brandy T. Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Mississippi University for Women, faculty advisor, Ponder Review. Author of The Palace Blues, 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Lesbian Fiction, winner of the Alice B. Readers’ Lavender Award. Her creative work has appeared in Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream, Ninth Letter, G.R.I.T.S. Girls Raised in the South, Pank Magazine, Wee Folk and Wise, Sinister Wisdom, and Lumina among others.

Visit her at: brandytwilson.com; See also: http://www.bellabooks.com/9781935226741-prod.html

THE PALACE BLUES: BOOK TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dktoyyri28&feature=youtu.be

Set in the 1920s, The Palace Blues: A Novel tells the story of Frankie, a white Texas tomboy visiting her aunt and uncle in Chicago where she meets and falls for Jean Bailey, an African American, cross-dressing, blues singer. The novel is a physical and emotional journey of self-discovery and identity as told from a marginalized individual's quest to find a place in the midst of racial, cultural, gender and class conflicts.