Emory Professor of English and Creative Writing Tayari Jones (Right) and author Pearl Cleage (Middle) discuss their experiences as black women writers./Nassem Yousef, Contributing Emory Professor of English and Creative Writing Tayari Jones and author Pearl Cleage spoke about the necessity of establishing a community of black female writers and the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing at the Sept. 27 “SisterWriters” event. About 100 Emory community members attended the event, which was hosted by Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book (Rose) Library and moderated by Rose Library instruction archivist Gabrielle Dudley. An Atlanta native, Jones joined Emory’s faculty in Fall 2018. Decades before she would go on to write her acclaimed 2018 book, “An American Marriage,” she enrolled in Cleage’s creative writing course at Spelman College (Ga.). “It was really a wonderful thing for me as a young teacher to come across a student who was so determined to know what it took to be a writer,” Cleage said. Jones and Cleage’s teacher-student relationship eventually evolved into a friendship, which Jones said was vital to her development as a writer. “You modeled for me what a writing life of purpose could look like,” Jones said to Cleage. Cleage said she knew how important it was for young women to receive mentorship. “I remember when I started writing how helpful it was to me to have women writers who were a generation or Source: Breaking News
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