Backbone By Caroline Randall Williams

Caroline Randall Williams, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, is a cookbook author, young adult novelist, and poet. She is the writer in residence at Fisk University.

“Backbone,” from Lucy Negro, Redux, copyright 2015 by Caroline Randall Williams, Ampersand Books. Reprinted by permission of University of Georgia Press.

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