She was attempting to examine the history of where this self-hatred came from and why exactly she had it. Her family had a lot of issues as well relating to race, and a lot came down to LaTanya’s mom. Parts of “And It Begins Like This” was her attempting to figure out where this came from. She had a bunch of self-hatred over that. LaTanya struggled with some issues relating to her black identity. With nonfiction, it’ll be more of a question that is motivating her. When she’s got something new, she tends to gravitate toward fiction. With fiction, she is always trying to do something different. Had she realized what the nonfiction genre was from the start, as there are so many subgenres that she find fascinating, she may have been drawn to this first.īut she’s not exactly sure if she has a preference. She had hoped to do in-depth feature reporting, not wanting to do straight news. She was going through school to become a journalist. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College.Īs a writer, LaTanya started with fiction, something she loves.
LaTanya received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, was the 2017-2018 Robert P.
Her work has been published in Florida Review, TriQuarterly, West Branch, Bennington Review, New Ohio Review, and Fourteen Hills, along with many other journals.
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