Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna is a highly acclaimed American author and essayist, best known for her exploration of themes such as motherhood, identity, race, and gender. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970, to parents who were both civil rights activists and writers. Her father, Carl Senna, was Afro-Mexican, and her mother, Fanny Howe, is an Irish-American writer.

Senna's work has been featured in numerous prestigious publications, including The New York Times, Vogue, and The New Yorker. Her debut novel, Caucasia, was published in 1998 and quickly became a bestseller. The book, which was later republished as From Caucasia With Love, has been translated into several languages and won numerous awards, including the Book-Of-The-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the Alex Award from the American Library Association.

Senna's prolific writing career includes three novels, a short story collection, a memoir, and several essays. Her work often features a biracial protagonist and offers a unique perspective on life from their viewpoint. After graduating from Stanford University, Senna received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine, where she received several creative writing awards.

In 2002, Senna received the Whiting Writers Award, and in 2004, she was named a Fellow for the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is married to fellow writer Percival Everett, and they have a son, Henry, together. The family has resided in both Los Angeles and New York City.
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Caucasia 1998
2 Symptomatic 2004
3 You Are Free 2011
4 New People 2017
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Where Did You Sleep Last Night? 2009
Danzy Senna Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience 2006