About

Joshunda Sanders is an author & executive communications leader. Her debut novel, Women of the Post, published in July 2023. You can order it here.

Her work has appeared in TIME Magazine, Poets & Writers, The New York Times, Oxford American and many other publications. She writes an occasional newsletter about the writing life & books you can subscribe to here. She is the creator & host of a BookTube channel, Black Book Stacks. and a Substack of the same name.

She has been the recipient of writing residencies, fellowships or awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Lambda Literary, Bronx Council on the Arts, Hedgebrook, VONA and the Key West Literary Seminars. In 2018, she was awarded the competitive Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award for excellence in fiction. She has been a speaker at Ohio State University, Princeton, JusticeWorks, NYCPride’s Human Rights Conference, South by Southwest Interactive, Bard and more. She has taught writing and journalism at The School of the New York Times, Lehman College, the University of Texas Austin and The New School.

She is the author of the children’s books, I Can Write The World and A Place of Our Own, the journalism textbook, How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color and a memoir, The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans. She is represented by Elisabeth Weed at The Book Group.