Denne Michele Norris
“If there's one thing we've learned in the last year and a half, it's that reimagination is what pushes us forward culturally, and the last thing we need is to be in stasis.”
Denne Michele Norris
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“I’m thrilled to have Denne’s unique combination of editorial acumen and stylish wit as head of the Electric Lit team. That she also has intimate knowledge of many marginalized communities both within and outside literary circles makes her the perfect person to invigorate EL’s editorial priorities.”
Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, VCCA, and the Kimbilio for Black Fiction, and appears in McSweeney's, American Short Fiction, and ZORA.
Denne's debut novel, When The Harvest Comes, is forthcoming from Random House in April 2025. Her short story Last Rites appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life, an anthology published by Atria Books in 2018, and her story Daddy's Boy appears in the 2019 anthology Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. Her fiction has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her story Where Every Boy is Known and Loved was a finalist for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Prize. She is a 2019 Peter Taylor Fellow at The Kenyon Review Fiction Workshop.
She is the former Fiction Editor for both Apogee Journal and The Rumpus, and is co-host of the critically-acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot. She resides in Harlem.
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