Bare Knuckle

by JJ Amaworo Wilson

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This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

JJ Amaworo Wilson

JJ Amaworo Wilson is a German-born Anglo-Nigerian-American writer. His work has been published in The Penguin Book of New Black Writing, African American Review, Justice Journal, The New York Journal of Books, and A Public Space, among many others. His 2016 novel, Damnificados, won four awards and was an Oprah Top Pick. Another novel, Nazaré, came out in 2021 and won the Foreword INDIES Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award. Amaworo Wilson has also written several books about language, two of which won prizes that saw him honored at Buckingham Palace in 2008 and 2011. He is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University and teaches on the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing.

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