Carr is the author of the novel Opioid, Indiana, a nominee for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

Your House Will Pay deals with a clash between two families, one black and one Korean, a year before the L.A. Uprising.

The author believes her role is to remind her readers how this moment for Black people came to be.

In his novel We Cast a Shadow, Ruffin uses satire to shed light on our white supremacist history.

The author of The Other Americans discusses her role in this cultural and political moment.

Her novel Dominicana follows Ana, a young woman away from her family and on her own in America.