Kathryn H. Ross’s new creative nonfiction essay collection, Black Was Not A Label, is forthcoming from PRONTO Publishing (October, 2019). Her short story “Seeds” first appeared in The Gravity of the Thing’s Winter 2017 issue.
Black Was Not A Label, Kathryn’s debut collection, is a meditation on racial trauma, faith, and identity, as well as love and desire and on feeling undesirable. It is a struggle between the realities of her past, the horrors of her ancestral history. It is a declaration of faith in the face of deep disappointments. It is a love letter to her body, her skin, her hair. It is her soul bound up in words.
To learn more and follow Kathryn’s writing, please visit speakthewritelanguage.com.