Venita Blackburn Book List

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Book List in Order: 3 titles

Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories
- Sep-2017
- / General Fiction
2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner�"Los Angeles Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme p...

How to Wrestle a Girl
- Sep-2021
- / Women's Fiction
A daring and darkly humorous exploration of girlhood, queerness, and coming of age in Southern California.Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the 2...

Dead in Long Beach, California
- Jan-2024
- / Literary
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2025 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2024. One of NPR's 2024 Books We Love. Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. “Told by machin...

Venita Blackburn has published 3 books.

Venita Blackburn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead in Long Beach, California, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories, was published in September 2017.

No. Venita Blackburn does not write books in series.