AWP21—Jeffrey Colvin

AWP 21 Episode—Jeffrey Colvin (Day 2, Episode 1)

We talk to Jeffrey Colvin about his stunning new book, Africaville. Jeffrey Colvin is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard, and Columbia where he earned an MFA in fiction. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and is assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. His debut novel, Africaville, is an expansive book, a genealogy of sorts that follows several family trees who have intertwined branches in an enclave in Halifax, Nova Scotia, called Woods Bluff and then later named Africaville.

Honorable mentions:

• The 2001 New York Times article about Africville that spurred Colvin’s novel

• Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Credit: Nina Subin